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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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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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Victory
UPDATE: The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights tells me (and the newspaper Al Wafd reports tonight) that the prosecution has formally appealed the not-guilty verdict against the 26 men. 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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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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Oliver: Thoughts on love
Oliver, in a photo taken by a friend while I was in hospital for a week in May My little cat Oliver, whom I loved dearly, died in July. He was perhaps ten months old – with rescued street cats, of...
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Entrapped! How to use a phone app to destroy a life
Love in the age of Grindr and Tinder. From http://media.giphy.com/ NOTE: For advice on how to avoid police entrapment and protect yourself on the Internet, see here (in Arabic) or here (in English and...
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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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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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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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