El Feki Shereen
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Reprod Health Matters. 2015 Nov;23(46):38-44. doi: 10.1016/j.rhm.2015.11.010. Epub 2015 Dec 15.
In recent decades, attitudes in many parts of the Arab region have hardened towards non-conforming sexualities and gender roles, a shift fuelled in part by a rise in Islamic conservatism and exploited by authoritarian regimes. While political cultures have proved slow to change in the wake of the 'Arab Spring', a growing freedom of expression, and increasing activity by civil society, is opening space for discreet challenges to sexual taboos in a number of countries, part of wider debates over human rights and personal liberties in the emerging political and social order.
近几十年来，阿拉伯地区许多地方对不符合传统的性取向和性别角色的态度变得强硬，这种转变部分是由伊斯兰保守主义的抬头所推动，并被独裁政权利用。尽管在“阿拉伯之春”之后，政治文化的变革进展缓慢，但在一些国家，日益增长的言论自由以及民间社会日益活跃的表现，正在为谨慎挑战性禁忌开辟空间，这是新兴政治和社会秩序中关于人权和个人自由的更广泛辩论的一部分。
