The Queer Arab Glossary

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'The spicy guide to queer Arab slang ... The Queer Arab Glossary [is] a playfully illustrated compendium of words from the affectionate to the derogatory.' -- The Guardian 'This gloriously confident book will be an eye-opening, often unashamedly sexual, revelation and education to most ... It's a rare blessing that The Queer Arab Glossary manages to capture a slang consciousness that otherwise might have slipped by.' -- The Bookseller 'The Queer Arab Glossary conjures community, resilience, and breathing space in the form of a book. As a project and offering rooted in archival care and memory work it remains refreshingly committed to laying bricks towards a future of recognition and emancipation. The Queer Arab Glossary is but a beginning, but one that is brimming with aliveness and possibility.' -- AnOther Magazine 'The Queer Arab Glossary brilliantly brings together Arab LGBTQ+ slang, drawing on words from the past and present to create the queer language of the Arab region.' -- L'Orient-Le Jour (Lebanon) 'Marwan Kaabour has shown deft editorial skill in assembling this provocative and cheekily illustrated collection.' -- Arab Digest The Queer Arab Glossary is a snapshot of the linguistic landscape around queerness in the Arabic-speaking world without sanitising its history. It is not a definitive glossary, but a conversation starter, encouraging others to build upon it and continue documenting queer culture.' -- Dua Lipa's Service 95 'Kaabour has curated a necessary intervention in understanding queer Arabness on our own terms.' -- Them 'The Queer Arab Glossary is, first and foremost, an act of presence. In a world that often paints Arab societies with a broad brush of conservatism, this book insists that queerness has always existed, painfully and joyfully, in Arabic-speaking worlds ...' * Translator *