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Articles
Diamond Walid (Guardian)
Beirut: city of projected fantasies
Visitors to Lebanon talk about a gay culture but what most of them see is just gay consumerism. (August 2009)
Rasha Moumneh (Menassat)
Global LGBT movement not inclusive of other rights issues
The writer argues that the "global LGBT movement" depoliticizes gender and sexuality, and ignores the intersectionality of different forms of oppression, in the Middle East and the "global south" at large. (August 2009)
Patrick Healy (The New York Times)
Beirut, the Provincetown of the Middle East
Patrick Healy gives an insight to the nature of the gay night life scene in Beirut. (August 2009)
Bassem Mroue (The Daily Star)
Lebanese homosexuals take fight for their rights public
Mroue discusses the homosexual fighting for their rights in Lebanon and the Arab Region, especially after the first homosexual demo that took place in Beirut. (May 2009)
Haneen Maikey and Jason Ritchie (Monthly Review)
Israel, Palestine, and Queers
This letter in response to James Kirchick's "Queers for Palestine?" (The Advocate, 28 January 2009) was published in The Advocate on 26 April 2009. (April 2009)
Ahmad al-Saadawi (Niqash)
Gay Iraqis Face Persecution
Hospitals in Baghdad are receiving a new type of victim: young men attacked for being gay. (April 2009)
Timothy Williams & Tareq Maher (The New York Times)
Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. The response has been swift and deadly. (April 2009)
Pakinam Refaat
First gay Egyptian movie premiering on June 22nd
Refaat sheds the light to the first gay Egyptian movie in Egypt. (June 2008)
Laura Trevelyan (BBC)
UN split over homosexuality laws
Sixty-six countries at the United Nations have called for homosexuality to be decriminalized. (December 2008)
Frederik Pleitgen, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Wayne Drash (CNN)
Gays in Iraq terrorized by threats, rape, murder
Kamal, an 18 years old Iraqi male, talks about his experience of being gay in Iraq, and the hardships he faced because of that. (July 2008)
Cara Buckley (The New York Times)
Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq
Cara talks of what it means to be gay in the New Iraq. (December 2007)
Dominic Kennedy (Times Online)
Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister
In Iran the law is discriminatory against gay people, and Dominic Kennedy talks more about the gay situation in Iran. (November 2007)
Brian Whitaker (GT magazine)
Axis of Evil
Haider Jaber thought life as a gay man was harsh under Saddam Hussein. Then came the invasion. And the aftermath. Brian Whitaker reports. (March 2007)
Doug Ireland (Gay City News)
U.N. Confirms Iraqi Gay Killings
In Iraq the situation for Iraqi Gays is worsening, in this article Doug Ireland sheds the light on the gay killings in Iraq. (January 2007)
Brian Whitaker (Guardian)
Coming out in Arabic
Brian Whitaker reports on a lesbian group's struggle for acceptance in the Middle East (October 2006)
Jennifer Copestake (The Observer)
Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target
Evidence shows increase in number of executions as homosexuals plead for asylum in Britain. (August 2006)
Jerome Taylor (The Independent)
Iraqi police 'killed 14-year-old boy for being homosexual'
This article talks about a 14 year old boy who was killed because he was homosexual. (May 2006)
Serge Trifkovic (Front Page Mag)
Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality
One of a series of excerpts adapted by Robert Locke from Dr. Serge Trifkovic’s book "The Sword of the Prophet: A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam." (January 2003)
Josh Hammer (Newsweek)
One Man's Tale
A Gay activist in Egypt describes the nightmare of the government's crackdown on homosexuality. (February 2002)
Hossam Bahgat (http://www.iglhrc.org)
Explaining Egypt's Targeting of Gays (2001)
Anissa Helie
Holy hatred: Homosexuality in Muslim countries
Bruce Dunne (The Middle East Research and Information Project -MERIP)
Power and Sexuality in the Middle East
IRIN
IRAQ: Male homosexuality still a taboo | 
