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This Queer Arab Family: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Author(s): Elias Jahshan
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication Date: October 14, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 184925088X
- ISBN-13: 9781849250887
Book Description
Existence is a form of resistance.
The Arabic word ‘hafla’ means party. But is also means to care for someone.
In Arab culture, family is everything. Personal desires are sacrificed for the unit, and roles within families are traditionally predetermined based on age and gender. So what happens when Queer Arabs redefine what those roles and relationships look like?
This Queer Arab Family is a celebration of the family we inherit and the friends we choose to become our family. From raising children with mum and mum, staying connected to sisters on the other side of the world through cooking the dishes that have been handed down through generations, to finding kinship in gender neutral toilets, this book is testament to the challenges and triumphs that bind us together.
This Queer Arab Family is here to slay.
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About the Author
(he/him) is a Palestinian-Lebanese-Australian journalist and writer. He is a
former editor of Star Observer, Australia’s longest-running LGBTQ+ media
outlet, and a former board member of the Arab Council Australia. His short
memoir ‘Coming Out Palestinian’ was anthologised in Arab Australian Other:
Stories on Race and Identity, and he has written freelance for outlets
including The Guardian, SBS Voices, My Kali and The New
Arab. Born and raised in western Sydney, he now lives in London. Jahshan
edited the anthology This Arab Is Queer (Saqi Books), a ground-breaking
anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab
writers.
