Nagui received therapeutic sessions in Paris, while friends and family hoped he would be able to once again return to producing literary works.[1] In his last interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Nagui spoke of his disease saying, “I had been through harder and more dangerous circumstances than this fatal disease. In fact, there is something harder than death which is the need to compromise over your values. This is the moment where you actually wish to die in order not to do so.”[3] After a 4-year battle with his disease, Nagui died on November 19, 2014[3][8] in Paris, while recovering from a liver transplant the week prior, and was buried in the journalist's cemetery in the 6th of October City[9]