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General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as you have never seen him before
The General is a man of destiny: Sisi (R, played by Romy Schneider) comforts the nation in its hour of distress Moving to Hungary not long after the revolutions of 1989, I spent my first few days in...
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Kermanshah update
Closed door policy: Stone arch at the Taq-e Bostan site, a complex of Sassanid rock carvings near Kermanshah All the men detained in the October 9 raid on a party in Kermanshah have reportedly been...
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HRC and the vulture fund: Making Third World poverty pay for LGBT rights
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest US gay organization, is going international. It’s just been given at least $3 million to spread the word of marriage equality to benighted countries that...
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Privacy tips for sex subversives: Ways to protect your information and yourself
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one...
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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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Iran: How assaulting eight women and girls can make you a “gay man” (updated)
Abandon hope. Surreptitiously snapped photograph of the entrance to Lakan Prison, Rasht, Iran Note: Update at the bottom of this post Let’s start with Washington, that pale cold city. The Washington...
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From Uganda: Guidelines for action against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Miriam Makeba, A luta Continua When Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” first appeared in Parliament in late 2009, human rights groups, women’s movements, LGBT organizations, HIV/AIDS NGOs, and other...
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Injustice at Columbia: Power and public health
Not any more Columbia University is rich. This was brought home to me many years ago, the first time that — a kid from the countryside — I visited Rockefeller Center. As I walked through the marmoreal...
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Two poems about blackbirds, for World Poetry Day
“Little Blackbird,” by Randy Aquilizan It’s World Poetry Day! Like so many holidays — the ones dedicated to Love, for instance, and Generosity, and Peace on Earth, and People Who Are Different – this...
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What to do about Syria
Syrian government forces patrol the Khalidiyah neighbourhood of Homs, mid-2013. Photo: AFP/Getty Images You would think that, having stayed in Cairo for much of the last year, I would feel closer than...
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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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Too brown to be heard: The Brunei brouhaha
LGBT rights in Brunei now have a face: Well, sort of. When you see the Sultan-slamming headline that arcs over that pic in Queerty, “Why I Can’t Go Home Again: Young Activist Takes Stand Against Savage...
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To Begin Again: From Daniel Bensaïd
Driven to bed by the recurrence of an old condition, I spent the last few days reading the 2004 memoirs of Daniel Bensaïd: Une Lente Impatience, published last year in English as “An Impatient Life.”...
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ISIS in Iraq: Real atrocities and easy fantasies
Fighters under the ISIS flag parade in Tel Abyad, Syria, near the Turkish border, Jan. 2, 2014: photo by Reuters/Yaser Al-Khodor ISIS – the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – says it likes simple...
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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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Vultures over Iran: The Human Rights Campaign follows the money
Why is the Human RIghts Campaign hanging out with the friends of homophobe Gary Bauer? Some background: HRC, the richest US gay group, has gone international. More and more of the news on its website...
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