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@appassionato @bookstodon

Have you read War with the Newts?
This one is fiction but takes the nonfiction phenomenon above to wild proportions:)

@QueerInTheCountry @bookstodon
📍Saleem Haddad • A gay author, filmmaker and aid worker of Iraqi-German and Palestinian-Lebanese descent.
• His 2016 debut novel Guapa was awarded a Stonewall Honour and won the 2017 Polari First Book Prize.
https://twitter.com/michigangayly/status/1513029338375106563?t=FNNnjaEZw_zs9C8z-EbzeA&s=19

📍Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
I haven't read. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52364253-queer-palestine-and-the-empire-of-critique
LGBTQ movement in Palestine and discuss the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia.

@QueerInTheCountry @bookstodon

📍You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
read, excellent. It's on many of these booklists.
📍Against the Loveless World by Abulhawa, excellent
📍Are You This or Are You That? By Madian Al Jazera - i haven't read
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/are-you-this-or-are-you-this/

📍Crime in Ramallah by Abbad Yahya
Author was threatened, there are many articles.
YA or Adult? Idk.
The novel tracks the lives of three young Palestinian men. The youths, one of whom is gay, work together in a bar...-- wikipedia