New Hawamesh Meeting “The Attack on LGBTs in Palestine: A Crises in Discourse, Or a Culture of Exclusion”
Wednesday, September 30th, at 7pm, Al-Mahatta Haifa
Wednesday, September 30th, at 7pm, Al-Mahatta Haifa
Entitled “Do Local Anti-Pinkwashing Discourses Perpetuate Structures of ‘Homophobia’ by Presenting a Misleading Facade of Queer Realities in Palestine?”, the event will follow up on recent community conversations raising serious questions about the potential impact and unintended consequences of efforts and strategies to expose Israel’s...
“Hawamesh” is an important project successfully developed and established by alQaws in Haifa in 2014. “Hawamesh” (which means "margins" in Arabic), is a Haifa-based monthly discussion forum about issues related to sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society. Hawamesh aims to fill a void in the mainstream discourse - including...
Queer Literature in Arabic and Palestinian Literary Texts, is the title of the new "Hawamesh" event, hosted by Almahata – Palestinian Youth Cooperative in Haifa. "Hawamesh" is honored to host a special poetry book launch by our friend Housni Shehada, "Sharqi el Monada," in an evening of poetry readings and discussions about queer...