Volume 8, Number 3 (Fall 2012)

SPECIAL ISSUE: 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.

INTRODUCTION

• Adi 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

MISCELLANEOUS

• Contributors, p. 155-157
• Submission Guidelines, p. 158