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June 13, 2011

American Admits to Fabricating Blog Detailing Life of “Gay Girl in Damascus” 
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An American graduate student has admitted he was the author behind the
popular blog, "A Gay Girl In Damascus." Over the past several months,
40-year-old Tom Mac Master wrote the blog pretending to be a
Syrian-American lesbian named Amina Arraf who was involved in the Syrian
protest movement. Last wee,k the blog made international headlines when
it appeared that Amina was detained by Syrian security forces. The
website, Electronic Intifada, exposed the hoax on Sunday.



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