Adib Khorram: Darius the Great Deserves Better

UK 2020, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dial
In this sequel to the award-winning »Darius the Great Is not Okay«, Darius suddenly has it all: a boyfriend, an internship, a spot on the soccer team. It's everything he's ever wanted - but what if he deserves better? Darius Kellner is having a bit of a year. Since his trip to Iran, a lot has changed. He's getting along ... Weiterlesen

Adib Khorram: Darius the Great Is not Okay

USA 2019, 321 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dial
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian - half, his mom's side - and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. ... Weiterlesen

Négar Djavadi: Disoriental

Transl. by Tina Kover. UK 2015, 339 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Europa
Kimia Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five, with a new life and the prospect of a child, Kimia is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which reach her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of ... Weiterlesen

Afsaneh Najmabadi: Professing Selves

Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran. USA 2013, 432 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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Duke University Press
Since the mid-1980s, Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In »Professing Selves«, the author explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable »true« transsexual and other categories ... Weiterlesen

Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love

USA 2011, 355 pp., pb., € 12.90
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Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life ... Weiterlesen

Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana

UK 2010, 393 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric gay descendant of the famous Lord Byron, Robert Byron, set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. While his arrival ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Luongo (ed.): Gay Travels in the Muslim World

USA/UK 2009, 200 pp., brochure, € 69.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Routledge
Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim culture. »Gay Travels in the Muslim World« journeys where other gay travel books fear to tread - Muslim countries. This book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of traveling in the Middle East during these difficult political times. The true, very personal tales reveal how gay men ... Weiterlesen