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# Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East Paperback – November 6, 2006

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    Modern Gay and Lesbian Arabs
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 3, 2006*

Arab is supposed to be an extremely difficult language to learn.  It's incredibly difficult for writers to generalize about the Arab world when it encompasses so many countries and so much history, and historical change.  Finally, in homophobic societies, it is hard to get people to speak about sexuality generally and homosexuality specifically.  For all these reasons, I thank the author for producing this text and give him much credit.However, this book may frustrate some.  I think the author was trying to write for everyday readers and the academic, highly-versed.  His journalism background shows in the chattiness of some chapters, but when he speaks of fields of Islamic law and constructionism versus essentialism in gay studies debates, it may get too complicated for some readers.The best chapters were the ones in which he quotes actual Arab gay men and lesbians (and yes, the book does try to be lesbian-inclusive) and details homophobic controversies in that region.  A large chunk of the book is about describing and critiquing homophobia from Muslim clerics and leaders.  Given how religion is used to promote homophobia in many places, this addition was necessary, but it got dull after awhile.  In the United States, religious homophobes play a key role in the battle of gay rights, but if someone wrote a book that focused more on Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson than on the Stonewall Riots, Ruby Mae Brown, or Rock Hudson, then it would be a rocky, unbalanced read.Given the intense tensions between the Christian and Muslim worlds, I loved how this writer tried to keep Western readers humble.  He says Arab countries have homophobic laws, but so did Britain less than 40 years ago.  Mosques may be gay-unfriendly, but he writes that most churches and synagogues are too, except for  a few, new, progressive institutions.  Modern Arab literature may be homophobic, but much of English and American literature is the same way.  Again, I applaud the author's promotion of keeping one's own community in check or humble.I wasn't glued to this book, but I found it insightful and important.  Readers may benefit from reading this alongside seeing the documentary "Living Dangerously."

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    Full of Information and comes from a unique perspective.
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2010*

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     Well this was my first book in Middle East LGBT and it really opened me up to the field of study I want to do. I was disappointed with the sources, but I understood that he was writing about something that there are only a handful of academic sources on and a few other stories by independent authors, so I gave him credit. I wish it could have had more reliable sources. Some of the internet ones no longer work.  But it is a field in which you have to slide into under the cover of something else.. I know this since LGBT Middle East is my master's degree.. Besides the sources.. this is a real informative book, full of information. I learned some things I had never even thought about, dealing with the Middle East culture. I recommend it for all in the ME area and LGBTQ/Gender studies.

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    Spicy and informative!
  

*by B***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2014*

I love this book because it talks about the Middle East through Gender & Sexuality which is barely mentioned in the media.I feel this book is a must to understand the LGBT struggle in the Middle East and how they have to deal with reppression.Its sad how Love is forbidden in these society because of the status quo placed by the hiearchy.Love is the solution the Middle Eastern conflicts.Let love prevail=)

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