Career
Kishk wrote for the weeklies Akhbar al-Yawm and Ruz al-Yusuf and the periodical al-Risala until 1965. According to the Middle East Record, Kishk"s "anti-leftist stand" may have led to his being "prevented from continuing his career in journalism". But actually it was his anti-Nasser writings that led to his removal from these journals and eventual exile to Beirut, Lebanon in 1968.
Kishk gained some notoriety for his ideas concerning gender and sexuality in Islam.
Kishk was concerned with the danger of
While Kishk disapproved of sexual relations between same sex couples, he noted that there was no prescribed punishment for it in Islam.