Podcasts Other Order From Ashes [Arabic] LGBTQ Rights in Egypt

[Arabic] LGBTQ Rights in Egypt

Published: May 2, 2019, 2:13 p.m.

This podcast is in Arabic.\nFrom the Queen Boat incident in 2001 to the waves of arrests following Mashrou\u2019 Leila\u2019s concert in Cairo in 2017, Egypt\u2019s LGBTQ community has always endured a precarious position. In recent years, Egyptian authorities have directed a brutal crackdown against its members. Ahmed El Hady discusses the recent intensification of repression and the crisis facing LGBTQ Egyptians. El Hady, an activist and a neuroscientist, situates the struggle for LGBTQ rights in Egypt within the broader quest for political freedoms that began in 2011. Any discussion of rights, he argues, must incorporate LGBTQ rights as well.\nThis podcast is part of \u201cCitizenship and Its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East\u201d a TCF project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.\nParticipants include:\nAhmed El Hady, activist and neuroscientist, Princeton University\nMichael Wahid Hanna, senior fellow, The Century Foundation