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LGBTQ Sexualities in MENA

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The Middle East and North Africa’s LGBTQ community is coming out and its anything but what you’d expect. Keep an eye on this space, which will be regularly updated, for the best and most incisive pieces on LGBTQ issues and people in the region.

 

Hope Remains for Lebanon’s LGBTQ Community Despite Beirut Pride Crackdown

Hadi Damien, the founder of Beirut Pride, was arrested by Lebanese security forces at a theater reading on May 15. Held overnight by authorities, Damien was...
Nicolette Teta
May 20th, 2018
 

Pop Art & Patriarchy: an Interview with the Creator of “Feminist Doodles”

Kharabish Nasawiya (خرابيش نسوية), which loosely translates to "Feminist Doodles," is a Facebook page that was launched on March 8, 2017, ...
Marie-Helene Rousseau
March 10th, 2018
 

Tunisian Activists Are Fighting for Greater LGBT Rights

TUNIS, TUNISIA — Abdelbraki Mezin asked me over coffee last week if homophobia was dead in the United States. “I mean, you’ve had marriage equality...
Erin Kilbride
May 26th, 2016
 

South Asia’s Transgender Hijra Community Speaks Its Own Language

In South Asia, there is a hidden language known only to the region’s hijra community. Found in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, the hijra are an old and...
Zehra Rehman
March 30th, 2016
 

Being Queer, Arab, & Everything in Between: Interviewing Saleem Haddad, the Author of “Guapa”

Publishing on March 8, Guapa, a debut novel from Saleem Haddad, dives into the life of Rasa, a twenty-something-year-old gay man living in an unnamed Arab...
Eman Elshaikh
Saleem Haddad
March 7th, 2016
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