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:...
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...
