{"id":2477,"date":"2026-04-22T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:18:23","slug":"egypts-celluloid-closet-homosexuality-in-egyptian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/04\/22\/egypts-celluloid-closet-homosexuality-in-egyptian-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in Egyptian Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an encounter with Haytham Fathy, the author of the book <i>Gay Men in Egyptian Cinema: Censorship, Visibility, and Stereotypes<\/i>, and for a screening of his documentary <i>Egypt\u2019s Celluloid Closet <\/i>(50 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>Haytham\u2019s work offers the first comprehensive study of the representation of gay men in Egyptian cinema, tracing how these portrayals have emerged, shifted, and been contested across different historical and political moments.<\/p>\n<p>Haytham Fathy\u00a0is a London-based Egyptian filmmaker and film scholar. He holds a PhD in Film, Television, and Media from the University of East Anglia, UK and an MA in Screen Directing from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event will take place at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/grimond-building\/lupino-screening-room\">Lupino Cinema<\/a><\/strong> on 30 April, 6-7.45pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an encounter with Haytham Fathy, the author of the book Gay Men in Egyptian Cinema: Censorship, Visibility, and Stereotypes, and for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/04\/22\/egypts-celluloid-closet-homosexuality-in-egyptian-cinema\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80318,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383],"tags":[112454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}