Chez the Maidenly Madam. A contemporary queer theatre play
20 June 2023
Chez the Maidenly Madam is a contemporary Syrian queer play that centralizes queer characters and raises important questions about authority, family, asylum, gender, and sexuality in the context of an...
The legend of Zuzu
05 June 2023
Through the reading of the character "Atiyat" in the play "Kasak Ya Watan" and based on oral history interviews with the people of that era, Aram Al-Maidani weaves the "legend"...
Of Paint Strokes and Words Underlined
26 May 2023
"Because I am a book lover, I started underlining every sentence of every novel I read, to say that love is love regardless of the gender of the two parties!...
Reimagining the queer characters of Syrian TV
19 August 2022
In every TV drama, film or song, I always managed to find someone who “represented” me, regardless of whether this character was queer or not. However, I would get ecstatic...
Salina: Untitled
22 July 2022
What are the places, events, memories, contradictions and transformations that can shape one artist’s consciousness around queerness as a revolutionary “identity”? How do queerness and different identities still resist (hetero)normative...
Thank you, Um Kamel!
Yaz |
24 June 2022
"A man and a woman in one body—it was a ray of light that fired up my imagination in an era before any usage of the many letters that now...
On childhood, ‘being different’ and memory
17 June 2022
I want to tap into the happy memories of LGBTIQ people. When we revisit and deconstruct our memories, we do not always have to start from the bad, traumatizing or...
