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“Gay Girl in Damascus” comes out as Tom MacMaster, Istanbul
Tom MacMaster, of Istanbul, Turkey, has just come out as the author behind A Gay Girl in Damascus. MacMaster was flushed out by Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty.  Here is his message in full: Apology to readers I never expected this level of attention. While the narrative voıce may have been fictional, the facts on…
By Dimi Reider June 12, 2011
Could Damascus blogger be a married couple from Edinburgh?
The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty may have come as close as anyone to uncovering the real identities of “A Gay Girl in Damascus.” Having crisscrossed the information, they are now certain beyond doubt that the blog was a hoax, and that behind it wasn’t a gay Syrian woman named “Amina Arraf”, but…
By Dimi Reider June 12, 2011
A Gay Girl in… Edinburgh?
As days go by, more and more details emerge on the backstage workings of the Gay Girl in Damascus blog, the author of which was ostensibly “disappeared” in Damascus last week.  The website Lezgetreal, which played a key role in the establishment and early fame of the blog, published the two IP addresses from which…
By Dimi Reider June 11, 2011
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Gay? Girl? Damascus? Plot thickens around Syrian blogger
On Monday, this blog was one of the first to spread the world of the abduction of Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf, author of A Gay Girl in Damascus. A post on AGGID, purportedly written by Arraf’s cousin Rania Ismail, reported that two men bundled Amina into a car with a pro-regime sticker. A few hours…
By Dimi Reider June 9, 2011
Web rallies to the aid of kidnapped “A gay girl in Damascus” blogger
Prominent American-Syrian political blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf abducted by armed young men in Damascus * Whereabouts remain unknown * Letter-writing campaign begins, targeting senators, the White House and Syrian embassies * Updates below The Syrian-American author of one of the most important political blogs in Syria appears to have been apprehended by one of the…
By Dimi Reider June 6, 2011
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