Michael Wahid Hanna, Century International Board of Advisors
Michael Wahid Hanna is director of the U.S. program at International Crisis Group. He was a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and co-director of TCF’s foreign policy program until 2021. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Hanna works on issues of international security, international law, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia.
Ahmed El Hady, Contributor
Ahmed El-Hady is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a revolutionary activist. He is one the founders of the recently formed Egyptian Coalition for Freedom and Justice which is concerned with human rights in Egypt. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where he is studying the neural basis of decision making.
TCF World Podcast: [Arabic] LGBTQ Rights in Egypt
This podcast is in Arabic.
From the Queen Boat incident in 2001 to the waves of arrests following Mashrou’ Leila’s concert in Cairo in 2017, Egypt’s LGBTQ community has always endured a precarious position. In recent years, Egyptian authorities have directed a brutal crackdown against its members. Ahmed El Hady discusses the recent intensification of repression and the crisis facing LGBTQ Egyptians. El Hady, an activist and a neuroscientist, situates the struggle for LGBTQ rights in Egypt within the broader quest for political freedoms that began in 2011. Any discussion of rights, he argues, must incorporate LGBTQ rights as well.
This podcast is part of “Citizenship and Its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East” a TCF project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Participants include: