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Articles about LGBT Arabs
A collection of articles about gay and lesbian Arabs, and their struggles. A list of generalarticles is followed by articles relating to individual countries.
General articles
Egypt's war on rainbow flags
al-bab, October-November2017
Everything you need to know about…
Peek behind screen of Yemen's paranoid poll
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 3 May 1997
Almost a week after its elections, Yemen is still waiting for a final result. Counting votes can be as frustrating as counting the hours.
DAY ONE
In the corner of the room, behind a loose…
Sporadic unrest mars Yemen poll
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 28 April 1997
YEMEN'S general election began in a mainly relaxed mood yesterday, three years to the day after the outbreak of a civil war that almost tore the country apart. Security was low-key in the capital…
Radical shake-up
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,25 July 1997
Bolstered by a massive parliamentary majority, Yemen's new government has hit the ground running, with a bold programme of reforms and economic restructuring. The question is how far it can run before…
Backlash?
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,3 May, 2002
WITH THE American embassy under siege, the secret police under attack and demonstrators on the streets, Yemen appears to be suffering from the backlash that many feared the "war against terrorism" would…
Contested elections
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International,12 January, 2001
YEMEN'S first local government elections, due next month, look set to turn into a three-way contest.
The Yemen Socialist Party and the conservative-Islamist Islah party will both be fielding…
Introduction
The Berbers lived in north Africa long before the arrival of the Arabs, and their culture probably dates back more than 4,000 years. Berber states known as Mauritania and Numidia existed inclassical times.
Between the 11th and 13th centuries, two great Berber dynasties –…
Yemen hostage murders
Gun battle survivors tell how captors took their revenge
by Rory Carroll and Brian Whitaker
Originally published in The Guardian, 31 December, 1998
IT WAS a hail of bullets from attacking Yemeni government troops that triggered off the execution of the tourists by their…
The nature of Arab regimes
THE TYPICAL Arab regime is bothauthoritarianandautocratic– authoritarian because it demands obedience and discourages questioning; autocratic because power is highly centralised and concentrated around the head of state. The head of state himself is modelled on the…
by Brian Whitaker
Originally published in Middle East International28 May 2004
When leaders of the industrialised countries meet in Georgia for the G-8 summit next month, one of their more surprising guests will be Ali Abdullah Salih, president of Yemen.
Among key topics on the agenda is the…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
