LGBTQ+

Alīkandrā Shrītiḥ (1987-, Lebanon) – Dāyman Kūkākūlā (2009, English trans. Always Coca-Cola, 2012). This novel focuses on the theme of…

Luṭfī al-Khūlī’s (1929 – 1999, Egypt) play al-Arānib (‘The rabbits’, 1964) in which lawyer and his wife try out a

ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī (1957-, Egypt) – ʿImārat Yaʿqūbiyān (2002, English trans. The Yacoubian Building, 2004). Describing the life of the inhabitants

Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories (‘Express Mail: True Stories’, 2009). This is an anonymously published collection of autobiographical writings by queer