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Ahmed Seif al-Islam: In dark times
Ahmed Seif el-Islam, photographed by Platon for Human Rights Watch, 2011 Ahmed Seif al-Islam died one year ago today. I had meant to write something then, but I didn’t have the heart. No one had much...
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Oliver: Thoughts on love
Oliver, in a photo taken by a friend while I was in hospital for a week in May My little cat Oliver, whom I loved dearly, died in July. He was perhaps ten months old – with rescued street cats, of...
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تحديث: الشرطة المصرية تقوم بالقبض على من يُشتَبه في كونهم من المثليين و...
الشرطة تستخدم هويات مزيفة على شبكة الإنترنت للقبض على المُشتبه في كونِهم مثليين أو من متحولي النوع الإجتماعي. قامت الشرطة مؤخراً بالقبض على أربعة أفراد آخرين. يبدو إن تم القبض عليهم من خلال إستخدامهم...
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Entrapped! How to use a phone app to destroy a life
Love in the age of Grindr and Tinder. From http://media.giphy.com/ NOTE: For advice on how to avoid police entrapment and protect yourself on the Internet, see here (in Arabic) or here (in English and...
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Meet this policeman. He is going to arrest you.
Major-General Amgad el-Shafei, from Al Wafd, May 2015 … “You” can mean many things, of course. Not all my readers are gay or trans or sex workers, though some are (hi there!). Nor are they all...
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Cairo, and our comprador gay movements: A talk
Photo taken and publicized by Egyptian journalist Mona Iraqi, showing arrested victims of the 2014 Cairo bathhouse raid over which she presided On June 16, I gave a Human Rights Lecture as part of the...
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Selling out: The gays and governmentality
On October 13, Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej died. 88 years old and the longest-seated of the world’s shrinking stock of monarchs, he was almost uniformly revered by a grieving public. Certainly...
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Egypt: Interrogating the terrorist Scott Long
“Source of Inspiration”: cartoon by Andeel, Mada Masr, November 2016. Sisi says: “A true pasha, by God.” I hadn’t meant to write about this. It’s small compared to what many Egyptians face, or fear....
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As If: On Alaa Abd el Fattah
Bread, freedom, dignity: Street art in downtown Cairo, 2015, photo by ChrisJ for TrekEarth In a quarter-century of visiting prisons or sitting in courtrooms and prosecutors’ offices, I’ve never really...
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Egypt’s Wipe-Out-the-Queers Bill
Forbidden colors: A rainbow flag is waved at Mashrou’ Leila’s concert in Cairo, September 22, 2017 Egypt’s crackdown on transgender and gay people started almost exactly four years ago, just a few...
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