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Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa
New perspectives on queer visual culture in the SWANA region.
With contributions from scholars and artists, this volume demonstrates that queer visual culture in Southwest Asia and the North Africa region is entering an era of exciting growth in its versatility and consciousness. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to Islamic art and culture within localities and regions from the pre-modern and modern eras.
With contributions from scholars and artists, this volume demonstrates that queer visual culture in Southwest Asia and the North Africa region is entering an era of exciting growth in its versatility and consciousness. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to Islamic art and culture within localities and regions from the pre-modern and modern eras.
Table of Contents
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: Aïcha 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 Güres’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 ??? ????? ???? ?????
Gaïa Khalil and Aïcha Snoussi
14. Sa’dia Rehman’s Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities
Natasha Bissonauth
Notes on Contributors
Index
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: Aïcha 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 Güres’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 ??? ????? ???? ?????
Gaïa Khalil and Aïcha Snoussi
14. Sa’dia Rehman’s Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities
Natasha Bissonauth
Notes on Contributors
Index