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Queer Egypt Under Attack (2023)
Directed by Vanessa Bowles
Documentary · 47m
A BBC News investigation has revealed how violent criminal gangs are finding, abusing and extorting people from the LGBT community they meet online in Egypt. Using masking technology to hide the identities of the people he meets, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin navigates the complex online and real-life world of people who identify as queer and who have been repeatedly targeted by a gang with violent viral video humiliations and police arrests.
Cast
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Crew
- Director
- Vanessa Bowles
- Editor
- Bettina Waked
Details
- Release date
- 2023-01-31
- Runtime
- 47m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Egypt
- Production
- BBC Arabic, BBC News Arabic, البي بي سي العربية, BBC World Service, BBC Documentaries