Queer Arab Literatures: Methods, Archives, Critiques Session #3

Join us for the first third of Queer Arab Literatures: Methods, Archives, Critiques.

In a moment when democracy itself is being pushed to its limits and community engagement is at a low ebb, Drs. Omar Zahzah and Will Clark bring three professors speaking on queer Arab literatures to SFSU. Themed around three areas--Methods, archives, and critique--our speakers, Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Pauline Hosmi Vinson, and Mejdulene Shomali--speak on processes of meaning-creation in queer Arab contexts.

This series of events focuses especially on axes of queer and Arab identities, which are both individually and intersectionality threatened in new ways in addition to being weaponized to legitimize Palestinian genocide and anti-Arab erasure vis-a-vis imperial and homonationalist rhetorics.

Through our speakers, we invite students and colleagues at SF State to join a larger conversation on queerness, Arabness, and identity as they are mediated in literature and our society during a period of global crisis instigated by American Empire.