Middle East / North Africa

Flag of Lebanon (Photo courtesy of NationalPedia)
Lebanon: Time to savor success, then face new challenges
Egyptian celebrity Khaled Abol Naga (Photo courtesy of The Independent)
Egyptian actor pushes for LGBT rights
Protesters carry a banner reading "Quran text before any other text" outside the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Aug. 11. (Hassene Dridi photo courtesy of the Associated Press)
Protesters vs. petitioners: Dispute over Tunisia’s anti-gay law
LGBT rights demonstrator displays combination of Lebanon's flag and a rainbow flag (AFP photo courtesy of Annahar.com)
Lebanon moves closer to overturning anti-LGBT law
Beji Caid Essebi, president of Tunisia (Photo courtesy of Reddit)
Tunisian officials propose repeal of anti-gay law
‘Please tweet’: June 17 plea by Turkey’s LGBT Iranian refugees
Scene from a photo shoot for Lebanese trans model Sasha Elijah (Heba Kanso photo courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Lebanon: Trans model breaks taboos
Lebanese police arrest Gay Pride organizer; events canceled
Rift splits Tunisian LGBT rights advocates
‘No Longer Alone’: LGBT voices in Middle East, N. Africa
Egyptian video explores fulfilling life with HIV
Tunisian LBGT activists help Bouhdid Belhedi (C), the director of Shams Radio, the first LGBT radio in the Arab region, after a scuffle with police who came to disperse the protest in Tunis on Jan. 27, 2018. (Fethi Belaid photo courtesy of AFP)
Tunisian police block protest of anti-LGBT law
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
As LGBTI arrests mount, Egypt’s allies remain mute
Poster for the Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
Tunisia gets its first queer film festival
Scene from alleged Saudi "gay wedding" video (Photo courtesy of Twitter via the BBC)
Saudi Arabia police arrest men over ‘gay wedding’ video
Tunisia: LGBT online radio undaunted by 5,000 threats