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النشطاء يدينون غارة منى عراقي / Activists condemn Mona Iraqi’s raid
Mona Iraqi, R, films while police lead away naked prisoners from December 7’s bathhouse raid: From her Facebook page (English below) نشطاء يستنكرون قيام الإعلامية منى عراقي بالإبلاغ عن مجموعة من الرجال...
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Egypt: Tweeting and blogging against informer journalists and homophobia
Stop informer journalists Tomorrow, December 21, is the first hearing in the trial of men arrested in Mona Iraqi’s December 7 bathhouse raid in Cairo. I will post updates here. Meanwhile: Protest this...
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الشرطة المصرية تلاحق المجتمع المثلي / Internet entrapment in Egypt: Protect...
الخصوصية ترقد في سلام / R.I.P. privacy (English version below) نحن نعلم الآن أن الشرطة في مصر تستخدم تطبيقات الهواتف في القبض على من يشتبه في كونهم مثليين أو متحولي/ات النوع الإجتماعي. مؤخراً تم القبض...
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New killings: ISIS answers the UN Security Council
Iraqi News wrote yesterday that one of its sources, in the occupied northern province of Ninawah (Nineveh), told them: “[G]unmen belonging to ISIS threw on Sunday nine civilians from the top of a high...
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تحديث: الشرطة المصرية تقوم بالقبض على من يُشتَبه في كونهم من المثليين و...
الشرطة تستخدم هويات مزيفة على شبكة الإنترنت للقبض على المُشتبه في كونِهم مثليين أو من متحولي النوع الإجتماعي. قامت الشرطة مؤخراً بالقبض على أربعة أفراد آخرين. يبدو إن تم القبض عليهم من خلال إستخدامهم...
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New ISIS execution for “sodomy”: Attention, UN Security Council
These photographs appeared earlier today on a JustPaste page set up by the Islamic State’s province of the Euphrates (Al-Furat). The link has spread non-stop on Da’ish-affiliated Twitter accounts ever...
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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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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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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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