Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa

Foreword: Queer Aesthetics, Opacity, Relationality

Gayatri Gopinath



Introduction: Beyond Borders and Binaries

Anne Marie Butler and Sascha Crasnow



Part I: Unfixed Genders



1. The Reawakening of the Belly Dancer and Queer Revolution

Raed Rafei



2. On Private Lives in Public Spaces

Yasmine Nasser Diaz



3. Futurist Androgynes, Persian Ironies:; Aan Iinterview with Rah Eleh

Proshot Kalami



4. Transing Contemporary Art: Aicha Snoussi and Khaled Jarrar

Anne Marie Butler and Sascha Crasnow



Part II: Intersectional Sexualities



5. The When, Where, and Why of Intimacy: Codes of Coupling in Egyptian Contemporary Art

Andrew Gayed



6. The Vicissitudes of Self: Storytelling, Queerness, and Muslim Identity

Yasmine K. Kasem



7. I Only Read About Myself on Bathroom Walls and "On Behalf Of: I am an Ottoman but in Name Only"

Qais Assali



8. Out on Display: A Queer Negotiation of Identity and Anonymity in Diaspora

Dylan Volk



9. Of the Confused Memory: Conor Moynihan in Conversation with Mehdi-George Lahlou

Conor Moynihan and Mehdi-Georges Lahlou



Part III: Sites and Spaces



10. Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Gueres's Works

Duygu Oya Ula



11. Heart to Heart: Baseera Khan in Conversation with Yasmine K. Kasem

Baseera Khan and Yasmine K. Kasem



12. Queer Heavens: Rethinking the Islamic Garden in Contemporary Art

Charlotte Bank



13. Viscosities of the known and the unknown ??? ????? ???? ?????

Gaia Khalil and Aicha Snoussi



14. Sa'dia Rehman's Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities

Natasha Bissonauth



Notes on Contributors



Index