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Egypt’s “gay wedding” furor: A ship of fools
Hand in hand: Detail from the famous video In Egypt any man can harass, brutalize, and rape a woman. It happens all the time. The State will ignore it for as long as possible; the media will say she...
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اسئلة قانونية بخصوص المثلية في مصر
بعد أن صار المثليون ومتحولو النوع الاجتماعي والجنس في مصر هدفاً لاعتداءات الشرطة كصورة من صور الحماية الزائفة للأخلاق، فقد قمنا بجمع اسئلة من المجتمع المثلي والاجابة عنها بواسطة متخصصون قانونيون بهدف...
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Egypt: Tweeting and blogging against informer journalists and homophobia
Stop informer journalists Tomorrow, December 21, is the first hearing in the trial of men arrested in Mona Iraqi’s December 7 bathhouse raid in Cairo. I will post updates here. Meanwhile: Protest this...
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Day one of the trial: What Mona Iraqi accomplished
Justice, with paparazzi: Standard courthouse art from Cairo Este artículo se publica en castellano aquí. Today I went to the trial, with two Egyptian human rights activists — Dalia Abd El Hameed of the...
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Victory
UPDATE: The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights tells me (and the newspaper Al Wafd reports tonight) that the prosecution has formally appealed the not-guilty verdict against the 26 men. The...
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After Mona Iraqi: Some Egyptian voices
Lock your door if you like, but I’m still watching: Mona Iraqi as Big Sister, in an ad for her program El Mostakhbai (“The Hidden”) How does it feel to be unsafe in ur own house, scared and your...
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One of Mona Iraqi’s victims tries to burn himself to death
Shameless I: Lt. Col. Ahmed Hashad of Cairo’s morals police — responsible for numerous arrests in Egypt’s brutal crackdown — appears on Mona Iraqi’s program, February 4 One of the 26 men arrested,...
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New arrests of alleged trans and gay people in Cairo
Seven victims: Still from Youm7 video, February 27 Some of us hoped the acquittal of victims in Mona Iraqi’s bathhouse raid would resonate longer than a few days or weeks; maybe prosecutors and police,...
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Remembering the Queen Boat, fourteen years after
Defendants in the Queen Boat trial wait in court for the verdict to be read, Cairo, November 14, 2011: photo by Norbert Schiller The night of May 12, 2001 – fourteen years ago today – I worked in my...
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Anusbook. Be connected. Be discovered.
“Tests of shame! Till when?” Campaign by the Tunisian group Damj Join the campaign to end forced anal tests in Tunisia. You can start by posting a message of support, or even re-posting this article,...
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