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Military manhood: More arrests for homosexual conduct in Egypt
Houses made of ticky-tacky: 6 October City scene It would be hard to say why you’d bother to put a checkpoint in 6 October City. Stranded in the rock and sand a dozen or so kilometers west of Cairo...
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Jeddah Prison, Cell 18: Entrapped in Saudi Arabia
Braiman Prison, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: from a video leaked to international media in 2012 to expose overcrowding (see...
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The warped reality therapy of Jeffrey Goldberg
Boots, and sandals, on the ground: Clay relief by Egyptian artist Adam Dott, representing the current political situation in Egypt Jeffrey Goldberg is one of those Beltway experts whose main area of...
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Puppet regime: A few more notes on Egypt and paranoia
No more yarns from you, lady: State Security arrest Abla Fahita The Jews are everywhere; start with that. In fact, the fewer Jews there actually are in your vicinity, the more you have to deal with...
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On not being well
Michael Ancher, “The Sick Girl,” 1882 My mother died when she was 51 and I was 17. Here is how it happened. She had gone to Ohio — we lived in Virginia — to see her own mother, a solitary and sometimes...
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Documenting human rights violations through interviews: training materials...
“Everyone is Different”: campaign for the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, 2014 One thing I do with some frequency is trainings. These powerpoints reflect a session I worked on...
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Brutal gender crackdown in Egypt: The tomorrows that never came
Heartbreaking epitaph for Egypt’s revolution: “Remember the tomorrows that never came?” Graffiti in Cairo by street artist Keizer (https://www.facebook.com/KeizerStreetArt) You go home, you lock your...
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Yara Sallam in jail, and the moral bankruptcy of the United States
Yara Sallam Note: Visit the Egypt Solidarity Initiative website for resources on the #noprotestlaw campaign, including a list of Egyptian embassies to write about these arrests. Other important links...
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Send your support to Yara Sallam and other human rights defenders imprisoned...
Yara Sallam (R) in the courtroom cage in Tora, June 23 On June 29 a court met in the Police Institute at Tora on the margins of Cairo– “a security fortress, managed by the Ministry of Interior,” next...
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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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Egypt: Tweet and blog against homophobic brutality, September 24 and 25
Prisoners in the courtroom cage during the Queen Boat trial wear masks to protect themselves from sensation-seeking photographers: Cairo, 2001 URGENT! This Wednesday and Thursday, September 24 and 25,...
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Meet the Businessmen Who Want Egypt’s Internet Users Jailed, Tortured, and...
If you are a nerd, you’ll like this post, because it’s about computers. But wait! — it’s also about sex, and stuff like that. (You practically can’t have sex these days unless you own at least a...
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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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Two trials, two travesties
Convicted men in the wedding video trial cover their faces as police lead them from the courtroom cage, Cairo, November 1, 2014: Photo © Independent (UK) Eight men were sent to prison today in Cairo,...
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Virginity tests, vile bodies: Stories from Sisi’s Egypt
Protest against forced virginity examinations, Cairo, 2011 What is this furniture That speaks of departure? People take up their folding chairs And emigrate. – Günter Grass, “Folding Chairs” Three...
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Egyptian activists to Netanyahu’s PR men: Our lives are not propaganda
Palestinian and Egyptian flags in Midan Tahrir, September 9, 2011, at a protest against military trials and the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, at...
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Dozens arrested for “perversion” in a huge raid in Cairo
Arrested men from the Bab el-Bahr hammam being herded into a Central Security truck, December 7, 2014. The woman with a cameraphone to the right appears to be Mona Iraqi. At about 10 PM last night,...
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النشطاء يدينون غارة منى عراقي / Activists condemn Mona Iraqi’s raid
Mona Iraqi, R, films while police lead away naked prisoners from December 7’s bathhouse raid: From her Facebook page (English below) نشطاء يستنكرون قيام الإعلامية منى عراقي بالإبلاغ عن مجموعة من الرجال...
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BullShnit: Egyptian homophobia’s Swiss defenders
Mona Iraqi, in an Egyptian Internet meme ACTION: Please write to Shnit and Olivier van der Hoeven in protest at the film festival’s decision to support homophobic informer Mona Iraqi:...
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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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