Mideast Youth is one of many prominent organizations endorsing a statement recently released by the group Pinkwatching Israel that addresses a trip to Palestine/Israel organized under the banner of interfaith dialog and LGBT solidarity. The three organizations involved in the …
Posted in Homosexuality, Israel | Tagged gay rights, Interfaith, Palestine, queer | 1 CommentPsychology, Field Study Psychology of Criminals in Jail May 2011 I think I started reading psychology in the year 2000 when I was about 15 years old. Psychology helped me a lot in understanding motives and ways of thinking of …
Posted in Atheism, Civil Rights, Egypt, Ethics, Gender, Homosexuality, Sex, Sexism, Society, Taboos | Tagged Egypt, field study, Maikel Nabil, Political Prisoners, prison | Leave a commentTunisian penal code 230 criminalizes homosexual activity with up to three years of imprisonment even if the actual implementation of this law is a very remote possibility. In a famous case in 1993, Tunisian appeal court did not grant a …
Posted in Civil Rights, General, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Sex, Tunisia, Youth | 6 CommentsPinkwash “It’s raining pink today; Israel must be washing its laundry,” I remarked to a friend after reading the below tweet from Scott Piro, an Israeli-American publicist, and self-proclaimed “social media denizen”. Most importantly, Piro is the publicist for Tel …
Posted in Homosexuality, Israel | 17 CommentsOn 1st April 1979, Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic Republic, and to approve a new theocratic constitution, whereby Khomeini became Supreme Leader of the country in December 1979. The great Persian civilization has suspended. Hundred thousands …
Posted in Gender, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Podcasts, Sex | Leave a commentThis is a comic that highlights the double standards of homophobia amongst religious scholars.
Posted in Assholes, Comics, Homosexuality, Satire, Society, Taboos | 2 CommentsA personal account of a man’s experience of the Queen Boat police raid on the early morning of May 11, 2001, Cairo, Egypt: I had a rough day and I really felt like going out. I called up a friend …
Posted in Awareness, Civil Rights, Egypt, Homosexuality, Society, Taboos | 2 CommentsThe International Day Against Homophobia is a yearly occasion to remind the world that the fight for gay rights is not over yet. Discrimination still exists; Homosexuals fired from work, rejected by family or beaten to death are just a …
Posted in Activism, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Lebanon, Taboos | Tagged homophobia | Leave a commentToday we make the official launch of our latest project, Ahwaa.org. Ahwaa.org is a bilingual tool for LGBTQ youth in the Middle East that leverages game mechanics to facilitate authentic, high-quality interactions. To learn more about its mission and some …
Posted in Announcements, Awareness, Civil Rights, Gender, Homosexuality, Society, Taboos, Videos, Youth | 6 CommentsLast week, Norway and other Western countries try to stop reforming the wording of a UN resolution that will protect all people against the killings and executions based on discrimination.they tried to include sexual orientation a part of this resolution …
Posted in Assholes, Bad news, Culture, Culture and Society, Gender, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Middle East, Minorities | 3 Comments