...Mejdulene B. Shomali Abstract This article analyzes two popular Golden Era belly-dance films, Sigara wa Kass ( A Cigarette and a Glass , 1955) and Habibi al Asmar ( My Dark Darling , 1958), through concepts of queer spectatorship, queer time and space, homoerotic triangulation, and queer...

...Mehammed Amadeus Mack Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History . Kadji Amin . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 272 pages. isbn 9780822368892. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The story of Jean...

...Sinan Goknur Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam . Evren Savcı . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 247 pages. isbn 9781478010319. LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East . Fait Muedini . Cambridge...

... of the sexualized meanings and queer desires within GayRomeo.com with local politics and practices affords new forms of self-description and embodied practice online as a queer Lebanese subject. Using context analysis to explore manifestations of selfhood within GayRomeo.com, as well as secondary literature about...

...Noor Al-Qasimi Noor Al-Qasimi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural, Media and Creative Industries at Kings College, London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and queer studies; Middle Eastern cultural studies; and theories...

... the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and the possibilities of narrating queer sexualities. A brief biography of the individual writer is followed by a discussion of the works in question, that is, Tante Rosa ( Aunt Rosa , 1968), Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei: hat zwei Türen, aus einer kam ich rein...

...Jake Silver Queer Beirut . Sofian Merabet . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2014 . 287 pages. isbn 9780292760967. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 In Sofian Merabet’s Queer Beirut , a walk through the Lebanese capital is far...

..., the “gay international” (in the words of Joseph A. Massad), and some Iranian diasporic queers who willingly insert themselves into national imaginations of the opposition in diasporic reterritorializations. This hypervisibility is enabled by massive mobilizations of universalized sexual identities...

...Grant Walsh-Haines This work attempts to answer the following question: What do Egyptian blogs tell us about how queer liberation can be achieved in Egypt? Through qualitative research and content and discourse analysis, I explore queer blogs and attempt to untangle their meaning. I begin...

...Sinan Goknur Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East/North Africa Conference April 10–11 , 2015 Brown University Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 In April 2015 I participated in a two-day conference, “Sexualities and Queer...

... parents’ home, the studio, 1948–53 Figure 1. “Abed, a tailor.” Madani’s parents’ home, the studio, 1948–53 I take Zaatari’s excavation of El Madani’s photographs as paradigmatic of how queer visual aesthetic practices can destabilize nation-centric versions of area studies by allowing us...

...: Homonationalism in Queer Times . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Puar Jasbir . 2013 . “ Rethinking Homonationalism .” International Journal of Middle East Studies 45 , no. 2 : 336 – 39 . DOI:10.1017/S002074381300007X . Despite some factual mistakes, Schulman’s book is rich...

...Evren Savcı Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique leaves its readers who are invested in social justice with a lot to think about. This is especially because critique as a modus operandi of social justice movements is not exclusive to the transnational queer Palestinian solidarity...

... that simultaneously embraces and disavows its constitutive traditions and attempts to formulate its own episteme. Living in Egypt, a queer diaspora for a Moroccan, Leftah employs queer male sexuality in a Sufialist text that tells the story of Niʿmat, an Egyptian retired army officer who pursues a love affair...

... documented thus far. Antigender campaigns can easily infiltrate Middle Eastern and/or Muslim-majority contexts in which feminists and queers have long struggled to transform societies, cultures, and states. In Turkey a state-led antigender movement has been unfolding, with burdensome outcomes for women...

...Adi Kuntsman; Noor Al-Qasimi Adi Kuntsman is Simon Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include queer politics in Israel-Palestine; war and violence in digital media...

... Is in the Heart.” This song was popular as I began to work on my dissertation (Hayes 1996 ), which would become my first book-length intervention in queer Maghribi studies (Hayes 2000 ). After the 1991 strikes on a number of campuses of the City University of New York, members of the original strike committee...

... broadly interpreted by the authorities, the courts, and police to target queer people, even though since 2009 several lower courts (and the high appellate court of Mount Lebanon) have rejected prosecution cases based on this colonial-era law. Nevertheless, the number of arrests under this article...

..., Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Chow Rey . 2002 . The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Davis Angela . 2016 . Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations...

... Industries at Kings College, London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and queer studies; Middle Eastern cultural studies; and theories of assemblage and affect. Previously Al-Qasimi held a research fellowship at the Center for the Study of Gender...