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Those who were called mukhannath, the “effeminate”, and the way society looked at them is an eloquent example. In most of contemporary societies, this space is characterised by the omnipresence of men, or rather by the ease with which men can move around in it, due to the traditional patriarchal separation of the private sphere, which is linked to the feminine, and the public sphere, linked to the masculine.
This new emphasis on cultural identity and the reconstruction of post-colonial national identities have had a strong influence on the relationship to sexuality in the Maghreb and the Middle East, with the Queen Boat affair in Cairo in 2001 providing an eloquent example. Nevertheless, the unofficial gossip is that the former sultan leads a lavish gay lifestyle within his palace, divorced from his wife and enjoying the occasional English lover.
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Note that in Al Ula, Careem is not as popular and you'll have a higher waiting time for a taxi – instead, use the Kaiian taxi app. Following my arrest, the police raided several venues expected to host Beirut Pride activities and took some patrons to the police station for questioning in a pressuring attempt to ensure the events would not continue.
Obviously I wasn’t amused by the whole experience!
Virginity is still a prerequisite for marriage in many societies in the Arab-Muslim world. It’s discreet, functional, and better suited for connecting with real people nearby.
That said, safety is everything. Thus, through the reflections of Western authors such as the French philosopher Michel Foucault, sexuality and the body can be read as notions defined by politics as normal or abnormal.
This high-profile trial was legitimised by the Egyptian state as a matter of national security because the men were allegedly endangering the authenticity of Egyptian culture, the paradox being that the legal principle for which the men were charged was public indecency, a legacy of the Napoleonic Code.
It seems relevant to understand the current implications of this exposure of cultural particularisms through a mirror in opposition to the West, for which the Queen Boat affair provides a kind of temporal reference point and constitutes a new influence on gender relations in the region.This new rigidity is more or less important in countries where political Islam is also important, which is less the case in the Maghreb than in the Middle East.
Traveling here as a gay man requires caution, discretion, and a healthy respect for local laws. As a tourist, I felt secure walking around. This was achieved in particular through the influence of the Napoleonic Code, which circumvented the revolutionary gains in terms of individual freedom by introducing the notion of public indecency, since homosexuality was not prohibited in the first penal code of 1791.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, a country with Wahhabist Islam where homosexuality is punishable by death, homosexuals play on the difference between the private and public spheres. Petra, in particular, is the crowning glory of Jordan, protected within sandstone cliffs and offering an unrivalled collection of monuments, including the defining Siq to the Treasury on an ethereal desert site of red rock and dunes known as Wadi Rum.
While the southeast is firmly Laurence of Arabia meets The Martian territory, journey across the nation to glimpse other points of interest, like the lowest point on earth – the salt sea – as well as various seasonal canyons and oases quenching arid land.
It’s a country in flux: part tradition, part transformation.