El ghourabaa : a queer and trans collection of oddities /

"Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy asked queer and trans Arabs and Arabophones, what are you interested in writing about? What does it look like to have fun and be playful? How weird can we get? What do our experimentations look like? Can we bring together very different writers, pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, Eli, 1994- (Editor, Translator, Contributor), Marshy, Samia (Editor), Elbanhawy, Sherine (Author of introduction, etc., writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Arabic French
Language Notes:	In English; some text in Arabic and French; some English text translated from the French.
Published:	Montreal, Quebec : Metonymy Press, [2024]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Arabs > Social life and customs > Literary collections. Sexual minorities, Arab > Literary collections. Sexual minorities > Arab countries > Literary collections. Arab American sexual minorities > Literary collections. Sexual minorities' writings. Transgender people's writings. Minorités sexuelles arabes > Anthologies. Écrits de minorités sexuelles. Minorités sexuelles > États arabes > Anthologies. Écrits de transgenres. Arabes > Mœurs et coutumes > Anthologies. LGBTQ+ people. Queer people. short stories. poetry. Queer fiction. Queer poetry. Short stories. Essays. Poetry. Nouvelles. Poésie.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy
Excerpt from Shifting the silence / Etel Adnan
Heritage ; the ghosts of the dead sea are rising ; GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica / George Abraham
Limbo / Yehia Anas Sabaa
Snapshots / Joe Kadi
Night work / Karim Kattan
The shatter essay / Andrea Abi-Karam
Selections from Nothing at all = (Rien du tout) / Olivia Tapiero
In America, where all lives matter and all Arabs are White ; children of salt / Bazeed
Allah and i attend 6th grade sex ed / Seif Siddiq
How to make love to a dying Rican ; Luciérnagas / Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
Sudden death / Ralph Haddad
Maraschino = (Cerise au marasquin) / Nour Symon
To love each other in Arabic ; Arabic / Nofel
The spa ; Nancy Ajram made me gay / Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
What a Kaibni was / Micaela Kaibni Raen
ten photographs of lebanon / Hoda Adra
The oldest language I know / Sarah O'Neal
Sun of my heart / Naja Kassir
Holding steady ; How beautiful it was the sea / Nour Kamel
Zora / Leila Marshy
12-17-87 ; August observations ; Lsānk thaqīl / Barrak Alzaid
Flap / Marlin M. Jenkins
as posssible, uncanny ; down home ; Erratum / Trish Salah
The July war / Rabih Alameddine.