"Some pieces appearing in this volume have been previously published."--Title page verso

"Seeking uncanny, fun, experimental, creepy, sarcastic, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, weird, sweet, and evocative works, editors Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect Arab and Arabophone queer writing. The result is an anthology brimming with gems by emerging and established writers and an homage to the lineages and complexities of queer Arab life. Multi-genre, multi-generational, and global, El Ghourabaa is an enigma, a delight, and one contribution to an ongoing conversation and creative outpouring."--

"With a foreword by Sherine Elbanhawy."--Printed paper wrapper, page 4

"Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy asked queer and trans Arabs and Arabophones, what are you interested in writing about? What does it look like to have fun and be playful? How weird can we get? What do our experimentations look like? Can we bring together very different writers, place them side by side, and collectively honour the queerness of our Arab and Arabophone lineages? What does a conversation beyond the basics look like? We're revelling in being together, wherever and however that may be."--Printed paper wrapper, page 4

Issued also in electronic format

Text chiefly in English; some text in Arabic and French; some English text translated from the French

(from table of contents)

Introduction /

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and Samia Marshy --

Excerpt from

Shifting the silence / Etel Adnan -- Heritage ; Ghosts of the dead sea are rising ; GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica -- Limbo / Yehia Anas Sabaa -- Snapshots / Joe Kadi -- Night work / Karim Kattan -- Shatter essay / Andrea Abi-Karam --

Selections from

Nothing at all (Rien du tout) / Olivia Tapiero -- In America, where all lives matter and all Arabs are White children of salt / Bazeed -- Allah and i attend 6th grade sex ed / Seif Siddiq -- How to make love to a dying Rican ; Luciérnagas / Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán -- Sudden death / Ralph Haddad -- Maraschino (Cerise au marasquin) / Nour Symon -- To love each other in Arabic ; Arabic / Nofel -- Spa ; Nancy Ajram made me gay / Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch -- What a Kaibni was / Micaela Kaibni Raen -- ten photographs of lebanon / Hoda Adra -- Oldest language I know / Sarah O'Neal -- Sun of my heart / Naja Kassir -- Holding steady ; How beautiful it was the sea / Nour Kamel -- Zora / Leila Marshy -- 12-17-87 ; August observations ;

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Barrak Alzaid -- Flap / Marlin M. Jenkins -- as posssible, uncanny ; down home ; Erratum / Trish Salah -- July war / Rabih Alameddine