“Drowning in Cairo” Plumbs Depths of Homophobia—at Golden Thread
Adam Ashraf Elsayigh Spotlights Three Gay Egyptians in Peril by Barry David Horwitz “Drowning in Cairo” dramatically reenacts an actual event in 2001, when Egyptian police stormed a gay party on a Queen boat on the Nile. They arrested 52 gay partiers who were tortured, jailed, and exposed in the newspapers—even though that’s illegal…