Is Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Gay?

So...nobody knows?

He sho' is pretty.

I was trapped on an Amtrak train with him last night - discovered via Twitter. Tried to find him but the train was packed in the club car as everybody was frustrated and buying booze. He was quite funny. His FB pic is of him and his sister and he is fucking adorable.

He doesn't sound so butch.

How tall is Ahmed? Me thinks he has a HUGE one.

My friend has seen Ahmed half naked and "cruising shamelessly" at his gym. Says he's very hot and very gay.

Hot!

Sounds gay, and around 0:24 starts having gayface. I like him better with short hair.

I have a hot for Arab and Middle East guys and he looks hot.

Breathtakingly annoying.

I just fell in love.

Why am I not surprised?

Nice work, R12. I wonder who Jack Gray is.

I thought he was the guy who got kicked out of Saudi Arabia for being too good-looking.

He could be Adam Levine's Arab brother. If you like one, you'll like the other.

Jack Gray is/was one of Anderson's producers. He's gay too.

R14 Dubai, not Saudi Arabia.

Thank you, R16 and R17.

He goes on and on in this video and doesn't really make a lot of sense when talking about racism.

And is gay as a goose. Doesn't have a good speaking voice.

Major homo. I bet he has a thick, juicy cock.

He's too flakey to be taken seriously. Sounds like a junior high school girl from the Valley.

[R6] I watched one of his lengthy interviews and he seemed to be shamelessly flirting with me every time he looked into the camera. That man knows how to work it!

There's a gay black sports guy he interviewed about sport stars coming out and it was plain to see Ahmed wanted him. I've wondered if they hooked up later.

Exactly, R21. "I hate racism. But that's like, a concept?"

I think we've answered the OP's question.

Wow, he's vurry gay.

Massive scat hound.

Big Cruz supporter.

Sounds kinda like Alexis Mateo

Well, he never sucked MY cock.

r15, Ahmed looks nothing like fugly soulless Adam Levine. Ahmed is pure sensual masculine Arab beauty. I usually hate gayvoice, but his gayvoice is so seductive. I also love his political positions.

He's openly gay. And so successful for his age it hurts

Another hot openly gay Arab is Hamed Sinno, the lead singer of the band Mashrou Leila, who are huge in Lebanon and Palestine. And yes he is fully accepted by his deeply religious Muslim family.

Really openly gay? His Instagram photos with countless beautiful women seem to attempt to have an "I'm straight" vibe. Photos with two beautiful women with a caption about how lucky he is.

I still believe he's gay but I don't see openly gay.

Ok, he's openly gay in his private life. Maybe in his public life, i.e. social media accounts, he maintains a veneer of ambiguity

I'd still snack on his brown sausage.

R32 I love Hamed Sinno. He is a pretty brave boy too being so open.

super gay

super hot

Wrong, R15. I loathe Adam Levine but I agree with OP about Ahmed.

totally channeling his inner Andy Cohen in R19's vid...

R37 A true hottie and talking about tops and btms, ooh yeah.

I'll say he has a very flexible wrist and leave it at that.

Who the hell is he?

Just for nostalgia, here's an old clip of beautiful Ahmed leading a discussion on the topic of 'Gaybro':

Sorry to disappoint but I know Ahmed well and he's straight. I can see how he comes across as gay as he's from the Middle East where guys are naturally warm with other men, combined with his liberal politically correct attitudes about gender politics. Anyone who is dreaming about getting in his pants is just dreaming.

He thinks the Munich Olympics were great, not for the athletic competitions but for the terrorism.

r45, post proof. He appears tres gay. And hot.

R45: er, would a straight man, regardless of how liberal he is, enthusiastically take part in a discussion about the 'top/bottom' dichotomy in the gay community, to the extent of lamenting on air about how 'limiting' such labels are?

Please. The guy's gay as a goose.

R45 is lying. Ahmed is gay. He has a boyfriend named Carlo who lives in Beirut.

And he linked to his friend's blog a few months ago on his Facebook, a blog about life in Beirut, in which she repeatedly referred to him as her "gay friend" or "gay best friend."

It's funny how all the commenters on his instagram think he's straight. Do they have absolutely no gaydar? There is one woman who posts on every picture of him with a woman with the comment: "beautiful couple." It's pretty funny.

I don't know why he bothers to pretend otherwise.

I don't know either R52 and it's kind of annoying. He goes out of his way to make himself appear straight sometimes. I get the impression that it's either an ego thing or he is getting some kind of amusement out of it (ie, trolling us).

R53 how? He is flaming anytime I see him and even in R19 's video. That is not hiding he is turning up the gay in that video.

R54 I meant on his instagram. Things like this.

^ That is so douchey. And who is he trying to kid? I am rather disappointed in him now.

Well it is a little douchey but I think it's supposed to be a joke. You can see that his boyfriend commented on that picture.

He also posts borderline sappy romantic stuff sometimes. Like this.

And this.

Does this answer your question OP?

R57: OK now that I've seen pics of his BF (and he's cute!) I feel much better. Thanks for the links.

I actually totally believe R6 now after this tweet. If you look at the things on the list.

Is he out yet?

Just listen to gurlina.

Gay. And hot.

So has he's left Huffpo? What's his next gig?

I saw him leaning against the wall outside my local deli, smoking a cigarette last week. I almost screamed! He is so cute.

I don't know why he's not out publicly but it's obviously something to do with being Middle Eastern. It's really hard for them to come out, there are so many semi-closeted ones even ones that live in America.

It's not like he really tries that hard to hide it anyway.

Okay so maybe this is why he's not out.

"If u want to support them it's up to u! But plz don't link it with the shahada! Islam disapproves of this strongly."

"I totally agree with @altuwaijrisarah this is so offensive to Islam !!"

"That's really offensive. You should respect all religions and their beliefs. Islam is against this and you should respect that."

I don't think this dude is gay.

R68 are you even serious. He's clearly gay. What possible reason do you have to think he's not gay?

Is the BF Arab?

He's gay, people. And out in NYC circles. It's not even a question.

Well his Twitter feed this week since those 3 teenagers were brutally murdered has actually been anti-Israel, which is so incomprehensible to me. I was shocked at how VERY pro-Palestinian he comes across on Twitter.

that face was made for being slapped by my thick dick

His boyfriend:

Le copain:

r72, it should shock you that Israel has murdered 1523 Palestinian children since 2000, that's one child every 3 days. Even when those murders are caught on camera (as in the video below) the West ignores these horrific crimes because our governments and media are shocking pro-Israel.

R72, he IS Palestinian. Why are you allowed to mourn for any Israeli killed, but a Palestinian is not allowed to do the same? Did he say it was fine that those Israelis were killed? No. But I'm sure as shit that you'd be defending any murder of Palestinians -- that's the difference. Pro-Israeli types can dehumanize Palestinians and justify their murders

Funny how Israel knew who kidnapped those 3, so they arrested 200 and blew up a few homes. Whereas with the Palestinians kid who was tortured then had his body burned, they actually HAVE a license plate, CCTV footage and a car description, yet no Israeli homes have been blown up, hundreds of Israelis haven't been arrested, nothing has been done. Quelle surprise.

Yeah, keep telling us that Apartheid doesn't exist in that hellhole of a country.

Meanwhile, we have kids killed here all of the time and I don't see my politicians getting involved and memorializing them, but they'll do it for three Israeli settlers. Give me a fucking break. Stop telling me AIPAC doesn't have a massive hold over this country.

[all posts by racist flame-bait shit-stain removed.]

Ok. He's so on the way out. I give it weeks.

R70 yeah, and he lives in Beirut. Is friends with the Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila's openly gay (pretty dangerous) lead singer Hamed Sinno. It's interesting it seems like there is kind of a prominent gay community in Beirut. Vast majority are not forthcoming about their sexuality online but don't actually hide it there either. I imagine they are out in their offline lives. Maybe not to family.

Like I'm pretty sure the rest of Mashrou' Leila is gay as well but they haven't addressed it publicly like Hamed has. And he writes the songs, many of which are about gay relationships.

r81, I've already mentioned on this thread that Ahmed's friend Hamed Sinno is not only openly gay but fully accepted by his deeply religious Muslim family. In Islam, all sexuality is private, whether hetero or homo.

He's done it.

Congratulations Ahmed. Very brave step. It can't be easy in a conservative, Muslim culture. Really proud of and happy for you.

R84 that's not really doing anything. Although in the comments of this one he acknowledges the boyfriend.

Really hoping he never finds this thread though lol.

R84 I disagree. It could also be a pic with very good friend.

The comment in the photo at R85 makes it clear that he's gay.

Which comment, r87?

R87

"Hamoudi you are a CATCH!"

"#tellhimaboutit"

Also I really didn't want to have to do this because it is actually creepy. It is public but it's still creepy. If there is suddenly more privacy settings we'll know that he's seen this thread and I can be appropriately ashamed.

"only you babe shares and frames things as such. ya mehtel."

Oh Lawd, r89. LOL. Hope he's not a self-googler.

At this point only an Arabic speaker can know for sure. They slip in and out of the language whenever they want to keep things within them and just a few.

He is Muslim so he's stupid. He's Palestinian so he doesn't bathe regular. He works with HuffPo so, again he's stupid.

You can tell by his photo he reeks of B.O. Now I know all you 'mos are into eating shit and drinking piss and think it's sex, but it isn't.

R92, thanks for popping by on the way to your serial shooting.

I can't believe you guys didn't know he was gay, have you heard him talk? I wonder what you guys sound like. :P

Ahmed was on the Don Lemon hour tonight. The topic was Violence in the Name of Religion and he debated with Rabbi Shmuley.

I didn't know this guy before seeing him tonight, but he struck me as possibly gay, so I did a search on DL to see if he's been discussed.

Sure enough, I found this thread.

Wait, so he's another narcissistic gay who has to have a boyfriend that looks EXACTLY like him? Ugh. So disappointing. Hate him now. Twincesty gays are so tiresome and cheesy.

[96] Um no I'm arabic and I don't think they look anything alike. Maybe you just think all arabs look alike?

How about this

QED Gay

R97 they look nothing alike and they are openly dating, if you read the comments on their instagram photos. They are a sweet couple.

[You do realize that this is a troll, right? You might want to stop talking to it.]

At least he'd not Jewish.

Really great grammar/spelling R101

[You do realize that this is a troll, right? You might want to stop talking to it.]

His is a glass closet. You can't hate him for that because he's muslim and Arab and to them this could be a matter of death. Literally. He spends a lot of time in Beirut and I guess he's learned to ignore the injustice but sometimes it does get to him and his anger boils over, like when he tweeted this:

His is "no closet" at all, idiot. R104.

He's never said he's gay, R105, though virtually everyone in the media world knows that he is.

R106 Was he asked and did he deny in response? If not, then he's not of necessity in the closet.

Hmmm!

He is handsome and hot.

It's fascinating reading the racist/bigots comments in this thread if only because I know those same people are in every thread about Israel screaming about "antisemitism." Kind of like watching a Klan member shrieking about anti-white bigotry.

bigoted*

r108: that does not look like his previous bf. So Ahmed has a new lover now?

Previous bf [if indeed it's 'previous' already] on the left:

I want to make love to his sweet ass so bad!

Mykonos!

So pretty

He's on Vice on HBO now....so cute

Oh poor baby...

He is beautiful

He sounds like a power bottom

Glad you guys bumped this thread. Never saw it before. Thanks for the intro to Ahmed. Such a cutie. And love that several people in this thread mentioned Hamed Sinno, the lead singer of the band Mashrou Leila. He's another dreamboat - and quite talented, too. In fact, he really should have his own thread.

LMAO! Well played Ahmed, well played.

He's cute but the lead singer of the band in r32 is beautiful and hot. If he's actually talented he could be an icon. Freddie mercury of the new age.

Middle eastern guys are so fkin nice and humble. I know its a generalization but its true. The islamic extremist and the terrorist shit always going in the middle east really skews things. But the average arab bro is cool as fuck, and will give you the shirt off their back, especially when they're hot.

So...wait. He's out?

BTW, Mashrou Leila (the lebanese band w/ the openly gay lead singer mentioned earlier) is currently touring the US.

R125, See r122. People forget he's not really a celebrity so he won't make the news. He's always vague with his pronouns. But I like seeing him on Don Lemon's show.

He's in Grindr's new video about Orlando!

Bump?

Don Lemon should have him on his show more often...they'd actually make a nice couple, but Ahmed knows he better keep his hands off my man

Still not out in 2018. Did he and the bf breakup?

Glass closet.

Who he?

I used to see him on cable, can’t remember which channel. Where is he working now? Hot guy.

Hung like a camel.

Looks like the actor Barry Miller who falls off,the bridge in SNF.

[quote]Hung like a camel.

Obvs. didn't mean the cigarette.

And he loves a little dog.

So, is he?

Yes, R138, he is. He cut an ad for Grindr, for Christ's sake.

Queer as a 3 dollar bill.

Other dongs make his dong solid as a rock.

Link to the Grindr ad?

Very pretty dude. Salt and pepper hair is a weakness of mine.

Top or bottom?

He's out.

Commenter: " Why are you gay?"

Ahmed: "Why aren't you?"

Did he and the boyfriend breakup?

Bump

Based on his Instagram stories, R146, the answer is yes. He’s been posting a lot of stuff about “growing from challenges” and that sort of thing.

Is he still working on tv?

Well, I don't know, dahling OP: he never sucked MY cock!

I think he's freelancing.