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The band @mashrou3leila is the latest victim of the #Lebanese government’s crackdown on free speech. #Lebanon must guarantee the band can safely perform via @hrw
.@mashrou3leila is slated to perform at #Lebanon’s Byblos Festival Aug 9. But this week a lawyer filed a complaint w/public prosecution calling on the state to prosecute the band on archaic & vague laws that criminalize insulting religious rituals hrw.org/news/2019/07/2…
Across MidEast&NAfrica, increasingly bold expressions of sexual freedom r clearly unsettling regimes accustomed to being guardians not just of “national security” but also of our bodies & sexualities. I wrote this in 2017 after #Egypt banned @mashrou3leila google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
.@mashrou3leila, with its sexually subversive songs — which include references to gender fluidity & Abu Nawas & Sappho (both known for poems that celebrate same-sex love) — have become icons for a beleaguered but determined LGBT community & lightning rod for our moral guardians.
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