This Arab is queer : an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers

Book 2022

"This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers-- some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab. From a military base in the Gulf to loving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from touring overseas as a drag queen to a concert in Cair...

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ISBN:

9780863564789

Description:

211 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction / Elias Jahshan
The decade of saying all that I could not say / Mona Eltahawy
Return to Beirut / Saleem Haddad
This text is a very lonely document / Dima Mikhayel Matta
Catching the light: reclaiming opera as a trans Arab / Zeyn Joukhadar
You made me your monster / Amrou Al-Kadhi
My Kali-digitising a Queer Arab future / Khalid Abdel-Hadi
The artist's portrait of a marginalised man / Danny Ramadan
Pilgrimage to love / Ahmed Umar
An August, a September and my mother / Amina
The bad son / Raja Farah
Dating white people / Tani Safi
My intersectionality was my biggest bully / Amna Ali
Trio / Hamed Sinno
Unheld conversations / Anbara Salam
Trophy hunters, white saviours and Grindr / Saeed Kayyani
Dancing like Sherihan / Hasan Namir
Then came hope / Madian Al Jazerah
Tweets to a Queer Arab poet / Omar Sakr

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3250606

Other Authors:

Jahshan, Elias, editor

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