Why a Queer Arab Glossary?

Brooklyn Rail

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/03/criticspage/introducing-why-a-queer-arab-glossary

“We must conserve memory. It is evidence of our existence, but also knowledge for later generations to learn from. It is no surprise that archives and memory are constantly under attack. In 2023 alone, Lebanon’s National News Agency’s photo archive was stolen by unknown assailants, while the Israeli Zionist occupation forces destroyed Gaza’s “Central Archives,” which contained thousands of historical documents dating back more than 150 years. Insidious attacks on memory allow those who control the narrative to not only shape the socio-political discourse of today, but to rewrite and reshape the past as well.”