Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut AUTH-4965181 Author: Jonathan V

Author: Jonathan V

But it doesn't have to be that way

became a model

when he was teaching Bible-school classes to poor mountain people in Ozone

a seventeen year old moonshiner from the neighboring community of Oak Ridge

Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut AUTH-4965181 Author: Jonathan VDisruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls "fractal orientalism," a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism operate on