Feature: How Do Modern Queer Arab Authors Conceptualize a Cohesive Queer and Arab Identity?
PRESENTER
Rashad Nimr &
Michael Karam
ORIGINAL CITY
Washington DC
Original Date
June 11, 2023
DESCRIPTION
In this afikra feature, Michael Karam & Rashad Nimr explore how modern Queer Arab authors conceptualize a cohesive Queer and Arab identity. They talk about global LGBT rights and their application in the MENA Region, and representations of queerness in Middle Eastern and North African literature.
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SOURCES & FUTURE REFERENCES
Gender Dictionary: traveling concepts and local usages in Lebanon | Civil Society Knowledge Centre
This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers – Saqi Books
The Thirty Names of Night By Zeyn Joukhadar | Simon & Schuster
Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World | Project MUSE
Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism | Jadaliyya
Is Another Language Possible? | History of the Present | Duke University Press
‘No Longer Alone’: LGBT Voices from the Middle East, North Africa | Human Rights Watch
Note: All community presentations are prepared & presented by non-experts on the subject. They are sharing information in the hopes of spurring interest in that subject.
