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From Abu Ghraib to Neukölln: Neocon Repetition Compulsion in Berlin
Fernando Botero (1932 -), Colombia, Abu Ghraib, from a series, 2005 Politics in so-called liberal democracies these days is mostly about hating people outside politics. Migrants are by definition...
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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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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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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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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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On death threats, trolls, and truth
Violent transgender activists cooking up a juicy free speech stew The center has shifted in the debate over last week’s Observer letter. What was once an argument about grave human rights abuses...
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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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ISIS kills gays: A history of violence
Hands shove them forward, bound and blindfolded. Then comes the step when the stone beneath them stops and nothing is there. The photographs appall but they have the solidity of things you can see;...
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Four years
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. General Sisi’s regime has cancelled (“delayed”) any commemorations of a date it is indisposed to celebrate. Instead it is “mourning over 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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Why the crackdown in Egypt isn’t over, and what to do about it
Covering their faces, shackled defendants in the bathhouse case are dragged into court, January 12: Photo by Reuters It’s like watching a whole ramshackle building totter when a single brick is pulled...
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Why I am not Charlie
There is no “but” about what happened at Charlie Hebdo yesterday. Some people published some cartoons, and some other people killed them for it. Words and pictures can be beautiful or vile, pleasing...
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Update: Film festival fires Mona Iraqi
Not in our sandbox: Logo for Shnit’s “Cairo Playground” Shnit, the Swiss-based international short film festival, posted this on its website today: As of its annual Council meeting on December 22th in...
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Day one of the trial: What Mona Iraqi accomplished
Justice, with paparazzi: Standard courthouse art from Cairo Today I went to the trial, with two Egyptian human rights activists — Dalia Abd El Hameed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights...
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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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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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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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Tim Cook’s coming out: Leaning in, trickling down
I’ve lost interest in being gay. Not the sex; the slogans. This has been gathering over time — whose identity wouldn’t shudder under the dark suspicion it was shared with John Travolta? — but...
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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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