Writing children's books about homosexuality does not seem too easy anywhere in the world, let's imagine in a country where homosexuality is considered a crime. And yet, in her absorbing…
Pier Cesare Notaro30 January 2015
Born in Selb, Germany, in 1967 and educated at the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul, Taner Ceylan is generally referred as one of the most interesting Turkish artists and hyper-realist…
Pier Cesare Notaro3 January 2014
It wasn't easy to write a history of gay porn and its evolution between the decades since Andy Warhol's time till the present time. It was necessary an extraordinary documentation,…
Michele Benini4 December 2013
Someone acclaims Hicham Tahir, someone else attacks him: this young Moroccan writer, 24 years old, has recently published his first personal collection of short stories, "Jaabouq" (Casa Express 2013, 128…
Michele Benini16 October 2013
His pseudonym is, by itself, an artistic manifesto: 2Fik seems strange, but, read in English, has the absolutely common sound of the "real" name, Toufik, of this photographer. With a…
Pier Cesare Notaro2 June 2013
God loves lesbians, gays and transgenders. This is a certainty for the imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, founder of the first inclusive mosque in Europe and of association Homosexual Muslims of France and…
Pier Cesare Notaro20 May 2013
Many people don't remember their names, but they immediately recognize their picture: Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni are the two boys, aged 16 and 18, who were hanged in Mashhad,…
Pier Cesare Notaro2 October 2012
In the heart of Middle East, bordering Palestine, Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, there is a country which is world famous for... civil war, terrorism, white phosphorus bombs, religious fundamentalism? No, this…
Michele Benini8 August 2012
