Michael has written extensively on LGBT issues in the Middle East and Muslim countries, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Gaza & Palestine, Israel and other locations. He is the editor of Routledge’s Gay Travels in the Muslim World, the only gay-themed American book ever translated into Arabic. He is the 2011 LGBT Journalist of the Year for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association, given largely in recognition of his LGBT Middle East work. This report for GlobalPost represents his third visit to Egypt.