Book
This Arab is queer : an anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers / edited by Elias Jahshan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780863564789
- ISBN: 086356478X
- Physical Description: 211 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: London : Saqi Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ℗♭2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Glossary -- About the contributors. |
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| Subject: | Sexual minorities > Arab countries > Literary collections. Arabs > Social life and customs > Literary collections. Sexual minorities' writings. |
| Genre: | Essays. LGBTQ+ literature. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Skagit Library | 306.76 THI | 1015302 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Contributors:
Khaled Abdel-Hadi is the editor-in-chef of My.Kali magazine and a visual artist from Jordan. His work as a global LGBT+ activist includes the Human Rights Watch campaign âNo Longer Aloneâ. He was listed as one of the Guardianâs LGBT Ghange Heroes of the Year in 2017.
Amuna Ali is the founder of the Black Arabs Collective, a platform that shares and amplifies the stories and voices of Black Arabs. Ali is of Somali and Yemeni descent and lives in the UAE.
Madian Aljazeera is a Palestinian Jordanian bookseller and founder of Ammanâs Books at Café, a bookshop-come-internet café. His memoir Are You This? Or Are You This? was published by Hurst in 2021.
Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian feminist, author and internationally award-winning columnist.
Saleem Haddad is a screenwriter, essayist and author of best-selling and Polari-prize-winning novel Guapa.
Zeyn Joukhadar is a writer whose novels include The Map of Salt and Stars and The Thirty Names of Night. His work has appeared in outlets including The Paris Review, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Amrou Al-Kadhi is a British Iraqi screenwriter, drag queen, essayist and author. Their debut book Life as a Unicorn won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Polari First Book Prize. Their debut drag solo show is currently in production for TV.
Dima Mikhayel Matta is a genderqueer writer, actor, spoken-word artist and playwright, and the founder of Cliffhangers Storytelling, a discussion series and workshop for emerging playwrights based in Beirut.
Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian poet and novelist. Namirâs debut novel God in Pink won the Award for Gay Fiction at the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards and his poetry collection War / Torn was shortlisted for a Stonewall Book Award.
Ahmed Danny Ramadan is an award-winning novelist, public speaker, and LGBTQ-refugee activist. His novel, The Clothesline Swing won the LGBT category at the Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Canada Authors Association Award for Best Overall Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award.
Hamed Sino is the lead singer of the famous Lebanese band Mashrouâ Leila. The only out gay singer in the Arab world, Sino advocates for LGBT rights in the Middle East and worldwide.
Tania Safi is a Lebanese-Australian journalist and filmmaker. She is the founder of Shway Shway, an online web series showcasing change-makers in Lebanon.
Musa Shadeedi is a writer and visual artist from Baghdad. He is an editor at My.Kali magazine, author of Oum Kulthoumâs Sexuality (2019) and the founder of âCinamjiâ, an initiative focused on the body and sexuality in Arab cinema.
Ahmed Umar is a Sudanese visual artist who came to Norway as a political refugee in 2008. He is the subject of the documentary feature film The Art of Sin, which won the Best Feature award at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film festival 2021.