LGBTQ rights

features

LGBTQ crackdown • 22 min read

LGBTQ crackdowns, civil society and social change: A video conversation

Naira Antoun | Responses to seminal moments of state violence against LGBTQ individuals in Egypt

2 December 2017

LGBTQ • 9 min read

Rainbow flag at gig sparks media storm of hostility

Mostafa Mohie | Rainbow flag at Mashrou' Leila's Cairo gig reveals deep-seated vitriol in Egyptian media

27 September 2017

LGBTQ rights • 23 min read

Shades of in/visibility: On coming out in Egypt

Lara El Gibaly | It’s not about individuals coming out to, but rather about the issue itself ‘coming out’ for discussion

13 September 2017

book reviews • 13 min read

In the Spider’s Room: A counter-oppression novel

Ahmed Shafei | Ahmed Shafei worries the novel's ending may encourage sympathies in the reader for some characters and

15 June 2016

book reviews • 7 min read

In the Spider’s Room: Because one hand met another 15 years ago

Ahmed Wael | On Mohammed Abdelnaby's recent novel, dealing sensitively with the "Queen Boat incident."

14 June 2016

debauchery charges • 6 min read

11 sentenced to 3-12 years in prison for homosexuality

Pesha Magid | The Agouza Criminal Court has sentenced 11 people to prison terms ranging between three and 12 years

29 April 2016

cinema • 11 min read

Four Egyptian wartime B-movies: Nudity, sex and a dash of politics

Amany Ali Shawky | "Who knows when the war is going to end?" says handsome gay painter Raouf to Ahmed, a youth fresh from

9 June 2015

Egypt's cinematic gems • 6 min read

Egypt’s cinematic gems: ‘Mercedes’

Amany Ali Shawky | Nubi is told not involve the Socialist Party in "a tale of homosexuality, homicide, drugs, politics,

15 February 2014

cinema • 12 min read

Please keep it in the family and spare us

Sarah Carr | Being a gay man in Egypt is already a struggle without this film and its tired old clichés, lurid misinformation,

23 January 2014

More features

Opinion

Amr Abdel Rahman and Dalia Abdel Hameed

Tolerance only allows certain citizens to sleep

Citizenship, homophobia and the failure of tolerance

10 February 2018

Scott Long

On not being there

Human rights and solidarity in Egypt’s LGBTQ crisis

14 October 2017

Dalia Abdel Hameed

Homosexuality is not a crime

May 17 marks International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biophobia. While I’m not the

17 May 2016

More Op-eds

News

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights • 9 min read

EIPR: Authorities have systematically entrapped LGBTQ individuals online since 2015

22 November 2017

LGBTQ crackdown • 7 min read

Update: Number of arrests in security crackdown on LGBTQ individuals rises to 57

3 October 2017

LGBTQ crackdown • 6 min read

At least 22 arrested in continued security crackdown on LGBTQ individuals

30 September 2017

deportations • 7 min read

Court grants Interior Ministry authority to deport “foreign homosexuals”

14 April 2015

LGBTQ crackdown • 4 min read

‘Ramses bathhouse’ defendants to press charges against journalist behind their arrest

30 January 2015

LGBTQ rights • 2 min read

14 arrested for ‘practicing homosexuality’

13 October 2013

Cartoons

cartoon

Cartoon: Gay people

Andeel | Guy 1: "Those gay people are funny, bro..."Guy 2: "Yeah man..."

20 August 2014