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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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