Lesbian Monsters Might Eat You! Heterosexual Panic in Egyptian Film
In the last article we looked at the film Genoun al-Shabab (c.1975). In that film we had a resident lesbian to whom one of the main...
The Parable of a Lost Generation: Hippies and Lesbians in the Sadat Era
Over the past six months, I have been endeavoring on this website to update the work I undertook in Chapter VI of Female Homosexuality in...
A Woman’s Closet Is Her Castle: Lesbian Subtext and Corrective Pretext in Women Without Men
Ahmad Jalal wrote the screenplay for Bint al-Basha al-Mudir. Jalal starred alongside Marie Queen and Assia Dagher and the film was...
Notes on Cross-Dressing in Early Egyptian Cinema
In the Spring of 1998, Middle East Report published an article by Garay Menicucci titled “Unlocking the Arab Celluloid Closet:...
The Founding Fathers of Egyptian Cinema Were Mothers
It is a widely known fact that the Egyptian cinema industry is unparalleled in its reach in the Arab world. From the North African...
Parvez Sharma’s Jihad for Love in Mecca
I first beheld Parvez Sharma’s A Jihad For Love at its Sydney premiere in 2007. As I sat to watch it, I felt as though my research career...
Better Than Sex: Queer Auteurship in the Age of Mass Media
An opinion formed too early in the game of life is no where nearly as valuable as a studied, carefully considered context. Ok, so...
Sarkhat Untha and The “TIQ” in LGBTIQ
Sarkhat Untha/A Female’s Cry is an Egyptian TV series made for Cable TV that first aired in 2007. It has not received much by way of...
Filmmakers Who Feature Arab Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Characters
Yes, I dared to use “Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual,” partly because the films themselves depicted identities, not simply behaviors, and...
Arab Filmmakers Who Feature Lesbians
I had the pleasure of seeing Rolla Selbak’s Three Veils at its San Francisco premiere at the Roxie theatre in 2011, and while I missed...
