Read also: The Amazing Way Islamic Middle Ages Celebrated Lesbian Loves<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In my opinion Arab culture is rich, our art is a colorfull boundless sea- whether it is cinema, theater, poetry or prose- from the Middle East to my Morocco.\u00a0I remember when I was a kid and listened to Arabic music and watched Arabic cinema and read Arabic literature: love and feelings could be fully expressed<\/strong>.\u00a0Art was also a means to breathe and break down social chains. A means of counteracting the country’s politics to gain free speech. In fact now I miss hearing Fairouz\u2019s voice (the Lebanese singer who sang love, beauty, freedom, nature), I miss having the family gathered watching an Egyptian film or laughing at Adel Imam\u2019s comic sketches.<\/p>\n Now everything has changed! The air has also changed<\/strong>, the mood has changed, people have changed. I remember that back then the LGBTQIA community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual) had a role in the cinema and theatre world: it was known and recognised in the art field and everything was calm. Nowadays, all we hear is about the hate towards the LGBTQIA community<\/strong>. Just like in the last scene of Marwan Hamed\u2019s film: \u201cYacoubian Building\u201d when the gay journalist dies strangled by his guest\u2019s belt who he thought was a homosexual just like him, but he was actually a homophobic murderer.<\/p>\n Today, Egyptian cinema represents the LGBTQIA community as sick and meant to die. The Egyptian film \u201cAsrar Aa\u2019eleya\u201d (Family Secrets), from the director Hani Fawzi, represents homosexuality as a disease<\/strong> and tells the story of a young gay man that, in order to \u201creturn\u201d straight, has to be healed by a psychologist. These days homosexual people have to hide themselves and disappear: they no longer exist in the eyes of society.<\/p>\n Read also: Arab music, how many changes in LGBT-friendly video clips!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n As a result of social and political changes that took place in the Arab countries we became people with no art and no soul. Everything is forbidden and controlled<\/strong>, people turned blind: now and then, a flower sprouts from the ground and begins to bloom, then immediately the dark hand comes to cut it off.<\/p>\n First there was Nizar Qabbani using art like a weapon to express himself and to protect culture and freedom of opinion. Now not even that weapon works anymore, it became rusty with the passing of time.\u00a0All this comes from the fact that religion has joined politics<\/strong>, taking away art from our tradition and culture, transforming it into a threat to freedom.\u00a0Why don\u2019t we go back to the times when our culture was art and beauty? Why don\u2019t we have a law that allows to love who we want to whether they are men, women or persons without gender identity?<\/p>\n H.M.<\/strong> I love you so much And I know the path to the impossible is long And I know you’re a Gentlewoman And that I have no alternative And I know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":27324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,413,439,408,511],"tags":[5689,5690,5692,5688,3469,5693,5691],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28094,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions\/28094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The air has also changed<\/h3>\n
\nI do not know what happened. We all became like Nizar Qabbani after his wife\u2019s death: he emigrated, left behind his land, his roots and started writing about the Arab regime, politics, the Arab division and the war, while back then he wrote about women and beauty. No more serenity or peace: the land where we grew up is full of blood and the sky is crying. Every day we lose our hope a little more and the chains become tighter.<\/p>\n![\"arabia](\"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/arabia-saudita-uomo-palazzi.jpeg\")
Out of the cinema<\/h3>\nControl and prejudice<\/h3>\n
\ntranslation by Tiznik<\/strong>
\n\u00a92020 Il Grande Colibr\u00ec
\nimahes: elaborations from\u00a0xusenru<\/a> (CC0) \/ from\u00a0md Ashik<\/a> (CC0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"