Spotlight on El Ghourabaa at Word on the Street Toronto

In Tkaronto on the last weekend of September? Head over to the Contemporary Stage at Word on the Street for a conversation between El Ghourabaa editors and two contributors featured in this new queer and trans Arab anthology.

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 a contribution to an ongoing conversation and creative outpouring.

Editors Samia and Eli Tareq will be joined by Trish Salah and Hoda Adra to discuss the process of creating the anthology, and what it means to celebrate queer Arab life in this collective moment in time.