Queer Beirut
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Itinerant Journeys -- Introduction -- 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil- War Lebanon -- 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence -- 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu -- 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism -- 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut -- 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia -- 7. The Gay Gaze and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ -- 8. "Seeing Oneself" and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz -- 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies -- 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life -- Conclusion. Struggling for Difference -- Notes -- Glossary of Transliterated Arabic Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
