Who fears the queer Arab?
From HEIST · 37:25
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In a new book, _Fear Eats Ali_, curator and writer Edwin Nasr captures that reality in a work of what he calls hysterical fiction. Through the character of Ali - a queer new transplant in Berlin from Beirut navigating his own political ambivalence and family history - Nasr explores the surreal and painful reality of navigating the German legal system and life in the city. In this episode, Nasr talks with HEIST founding editor Peter Matthews about the origin of the book and the idea of hysterical fiction; his own legal fight; sexual politics; and the overlapping histories of trauma shared by Berlin and Beirut.
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