JMEWS Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes

SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Middle East Women's Studies: Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes 

Adi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi, Guest Editors

In this special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, entitled “Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes,” guest editors Adi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi fill in the gap in current scholarship where “queer,” “digital” and “Middle East” are seldom considered together. Five full-length articles and a unique Interventions section examine, empirically and theoretically, the conjunctions between sexuality and technology, queerness and the Middle East, and transformative politics and colonial and imperial legacies.

INTRODUCTIONAdi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi, p. 1-5

ESSAYS

• From Homoerotics of Exile to Homopolitics of Diaspora: Cyberspace, the War on Terror, and the Hypervisible Iranian Queer, Sima Shakhsari , p. 14-40

• The Egyptian Blogosphere: Policing Gender and Sexuality and the Consequences for Queer Emancipation, Grant Walsh-Haines, p. 41-62

• “Coming Out of the Internet”: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a “Digital Closet” in Turkey, Serkan Gorkemli , p. 63-88

• Efféminés, Gigolos, and MSMs in the Cyber-Networks, Coffeehouses, and “Secret Gardens” of Contemporary Tunis, Rodney Collins, p. 89-112

• Queer Beirut Online: The Participation of Men in Gayromeo.com, Mathew Gagné, p. 113-137

INTERVENTIONS

• WaWa Series, Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi, p.138, Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi, p. 138

• The “Boyah” and the “Baby Lady”: Queer Mediations in Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi’s Wawa Series (2011), Noor Al-Qasimi, p. 139-142

• “Israelis and Iranians, Get A Room!”: Love, Hate, and Transnational Politics from the “Israel Loves Iran” and “Iran Loves Israel” Facebook Campaigns, Adi Kuntsman, Sanaz Raji, p. 143-154