In the Spider's Room pubeasy Capturing profound cultural shifts underway

Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world

wonderfully woven with a cast of memorable characters' Mari Hannah

From the first strike action organised by trade union members to save the job of a victimised gay colleague in the 1970s

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In the Spider's Room pubeasy Capturing profound cultural shifts underwayHani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypt's gay community. Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness, Hani writes down the events of his life his first sexual