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.

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 of the new queer and trans Arab anthology's contributors.

A Room of One's Own Bookstore in Madison, WI, will be hosting a launch of El Ghourabaa featuring co-editor Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and anthology contributor Bazeed in conversation with Fawzy Taylor.