A Gay Girl in Damascus (February 2011 - June 2011) was a blog purportedly authored by Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari. Omari was, in fact, a hoax persona created by the American citizen …

Jun 13, 2011 · Over the last several months, Amina Araf, a blogger who said she was Syrian-American and went by the name Gay Girl In Damascus, captured the world's attention. Her …

Jun 9, 2011 · News of the kidnap of Syrian blogger Amina Arraf - known as "a gay girl in Damascus" - has made headlines around the world, but doubts about her identity have …

Jun 12, 2011 · Over the last several months, Amina Arraf, a blogger who said she was Syrian-American and went by the name Gay Girl In Damascus, captured the world's attention. Her …

Nov 9, 2017 · Kevin Young writes about the hoax revolving around the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, in which a white American man posed as a Syrian-American lesbian writer.

Jul 25, 2015 · Deraspe hired Turkish actress Nilay Olcay to play the role of an Amina-like woman on a streets of Damascus-like city. She mostly moves ethereally to Sam Shalabi's Arabic …

Jun 13, 2011 · Female, gay and half-American, Amina Abdullah is capturing the imagination of the Syrian opposition with a blog that has shot to prominence as the protest movement struggles …

Aug 14, 2013 · Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old American man living in Scotland admitted that he was behind the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blog, which, for the past six years provided thousands …

Apr 3, 2023 · The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded …

Nov 15, 2023 · Amina was the titular Gay Girl in Damascus, a blog published in 2011 during the Arab Spring and the start of the Syrian conflict. In it, she documented her life as an out lesbian …