“El Ghourabaa (Metonymy), a collection of delightfully experimental works edited by Montreal-based writers Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, is a vital new entry to the field of Arab diaspora literature…The collection’s sheer diversity in both subject matter and form makes every part stand out: from a reflective except by the renowned late queer elder Etel Adnan, to a staccato panic-filled poem by self-described ‘punk poet-performer cyborg’ Andrea Abi-Karam.”
—Olivia Shan, Maisonneuve
“From navigating the locker room in a trans body, to lessons on remembering and on making love, to tender and heartbreaking childhood memories, the anthology is all at once wholesome, delicious, dark, and unpredictable…A bold and thoughtfully curated anthology, El Ghourabaa is prolific and piercing in its beauty and stays true to El Bechelany-Lynch and Marshy’s queer, trans, anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-Zionist vision. A book born of love and necessity, it is an unforgiving and compassionate offering during times of heightened global violence.”
—Val Rwigema, Montreal Review of Books
Editors: Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Cover art by Poline Harbali | Cover design by Sultana Bambino
