Faggy Faafi Cairo Boy - Criminal Queerness Festival 2026

In the space between living and whatever the hell comes next, between daddy issues and Daddy issues, between the city that never sleeps and the city that never even blinks… Mohammad, the prodigal, closeted son returns to Cairo, and to his father’s rapidly failing, irrevocable body. Distanced from his NYC boyfriend, Mohammad reunites with an old Cairo flame who now has a life of his own. And who’s to judge him, besides that angry little angel in the corner of the hospital room? Bazeed is a multi–award winning Egyptian immigrant, playwright, poet, performer, editor, literary translator, plant-dad, licensed massage therapist, and very decent cook, living in Brooklyn. Recipient of the Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, their work across genres has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Sundance Institute, the Arab American National Museum, the Civilians, Queer Art Mentorship, and Trans Lab, among others. Their first play, peace camp org, recipient of the Fresh Fruit Festival Spirit Award, is published by Oberon Books, UK. They are currently at work on Ceasefire Later!, a verbatim play documenting the genocide in Gaza, and on Sisters at Sunrise, a bilingual musical play commissioned by Noor Theatre, NYC. To procrastinate from facing the blank page, they run a performance salon series, and are a slow student of Arabic music