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Maher Sabry is an Egyptian theatre director, filmmaker and cartoonist. He "was the first director to portray gay and lesbian love in lyrical and sympathetic manner on stage, in fact in the Egyptian media as a whole…" as described in Arts and the Islamic World: -volume 35. He also published poetry in various Arabic language publications and Marionette is his first poetry collection, published by Garad Books/Cairo (1998). As a gay activist he started with others queer forums for Egyptian LGBT on the internet, using the pseudonym "Horus." When the fifty-two gay men were arrested at the Queen Boat discotheque in Cairo, he was the first person to launch an Internet campaign focused on spotlighting the abuses before the international community. He also mobilized largely resistant legal aid and human rights organizations into providing representation in court for the victims. Finally he received the 2002 Felipa Award from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. |
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