Die Liebesgeschichte beginnt, wie Tausendundeine Liebesgeschichten vor ihr begonnen haben: Es war einmal ... Eine Erz�hlerin berichtet von der Beziehung zweier M�nner. Ein polyamour�ser Chor von fr�heren Liebhabern setzt ein. Im Club Sheherazad kommen und gehen die Figuren. Es geht um Grindr-Dates, Herzschmerz, Liebe zu dritt. Und was ist mit einem Happy End?- Auf Basis seines eigenen Liebestagebuchs erschafft Regisseur ... Weiterlesen

Lamya H.: Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

UK 2023, 284 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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When 14-year-old Lamya realizes she has a crush on her teacher - her female teacher - she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can't yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like ... Weiterlesen

Elias Jahshan (ed.): This Arab is Queer

GB 2022, 288 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Saqi Books

�This Arab is Queer� is a ground-breaking collection of eighteen short memoirs and essays. Telling their truths with integrity, wisdom and wit, lesbian, gay, bi-, intersexual and trans Arabs share their realities of what it is like to love freely in a place called home. These personal stories come from across the Middle East, the diaspora and from the most ... Weiterlesen

Omar Sharif jr.: A Tale of Two Omars

USA 2021, 213 pp., hardback, € 27.95
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Counterpoint

The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father's side and Holocaust survivors on his mother's, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents' Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When, in the wake of the Arab Spring, he made the difficult decision ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Out of Egypt

UK 2019, 415 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Faber and Faber

This portrait of a now vanished world tells the story of Alexandria in the 20th-century that is, by the way, the story of Aciman's own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early ... Weiterlesen

Saleem Haddad: Guapa

UK 2019, 300 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Random House

Set over the course of 24 hours, �Guapa� follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. ... Weiterlesen
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Ahmad Danny Ramadan: The Clothesline Swing

USA 2017, 288 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Inspired by �Arabian Tales of One Thousand and One Nights�, �The Clothesline Swing� tells the epic story of two gay lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. The storyteller keeps life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner. Each night he weaves stories of his childhood in Damascus, of the cruelty he has endured ... Weiterlesen

Brian van Reet: Spoils

UK 2018, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. 19-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for war. Being a lesbian is both obvious for everyone and never discussed. Two decades of fighting - and the new wave of super-radicalised fighters have joined the ranks ... Weiterlesen

Hasan Namir: God in Pink

USA 2015, 153 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

A revelatory novel about being gay and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Since his parents have died, he lives under the close scrutinity of his strict brother and sister-in-law. They exert pressure on him to find a wife, leaving him anguished ... Weiterlesen

Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens

Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. UK 2016, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson

�Headscarves and Hymens� explodes the myth that we should stand back and watch while women are disempowered and abused in the name of religion. In this laceratingly honest account, Eltahawy takes aim both at attitudes in the Middle East and at the western liberals who mistake misogyny for cultural difference. Her argument is clear: unless political revolution in the Arab ... Weiterlesen

Amber Jacobs: Nights of Silk and Sapphire

D 2016, 309 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag

Abducted from a land of wealth and privilege, Dae is chained to a slaver's caravan crossing the vast Jaharri desert. It is a strange world of blistering sun, rolling dunes, and wind-carved plains, ruled by the Scion Zafirah Al'Intisar, a powerful and mysterious woman with seductive eyes of sapphire blue. When Zafirah liberates the caravan the rescue Dae prayed for ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Ta�a: Salvation Army

Introduction by Edmund White. English by Frank Stock. USA 2009, 144 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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An autobiographical novel by turns na�ve and cunning, funny and moving, this most recent work by Moroccan expatriate Abdellah Ta�a is a major addition to the new French literature emerging from the North African Arabic diaspora. This is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Ta�a's life with complete disclosure - from a childhood bound by family order and ... Weiterlesen

Khaled El-Rouayheb: Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800

USA 2009, 210 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Islamic elite culture before the 9th century. On the other hand, Islam supposedly considers homosexuality an abomination and prescribes severe punishment for it. This book ... Weiterlesen

Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

UK 2006, 308 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

In 1840s Damascus, Aslan Farhi leads a miserable life. Despised by his wealthy father, bullied by his siblings, and humiliated by his mother, he forms a close friendship with another boy, only for him to mysteriously disappear when their relationship becomes public knowledge. Aslan is horrified when his father arranges for him to be married to the rabbi's daughter, but ... Weiterlesen

Alaa Al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building

USA 2006, 255pp., brochure, € 14.95
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All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo: a fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed �scientist of women�, a sultry, voluptuous siren, a devout young student, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism, a newspaper editor helplessly in love with a ... Weiterlesen

Mai Ghoussoub, Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds.): Imagined Masculinities

Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East. UK 2006, 294 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus on the status of women. Issues of Male identity, in a region which has seen enormous social change over the past decades, have been somewhat neglected. This book redresses this balance by examining masculinity as a social construct as diverse in its forms as femininity. Initiation rites, ritualised violence ... Weiterlesen

Brian Whitaker: Unspeakable Love

UK 2011, 280 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Homosexuality is still taboo in the Arab countries. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers, reluctant to address it directly, talk cryptically of �shameful acts� and �deviant behaviour�. Despite growing acceptance of sexual diversity in many parts of the world, attitudes in the Middle East have been hardening against it. In this absorbing account, journalist Brian Whitaker paints ... Weiterlesen

J. W. Wright / Everett K. Rowson: Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature

USA 1998, 239 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Columbia University Press

There is a wealth of homoerotic allusion found in classical Arabic literature from pre-Islamic poems to the �Thousand and One Nights�. Images and narratives often glorify the male body as beautiful, youthful, or erotic. While such masculine allusion and homoerotic imagery have been recognized as significant elements of classical Arabic literature, they have either been misunderstood or lacked sustained analysis. ... Weiterlesen