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...
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...
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...
