Homosexual Intifada Book Launch

Celebrate the launch of Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology, a groundbreaking new collection amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Palestinians across the diaspora and homeland. Join co-editors George Abraham and Hannah Moushabeck, alongside contributors Mejdulene Bernard Shomali and Bint Bandora, for an evening of readings, conversation, and community as they explore themes of identity, resistance, and love.

This special event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from the queer Palestinian writers and artists that challenge dominant narratives, confront erasure, and affirm the richness and resilience of queer Palestinian life. A book signing will follow the discussion.

Proceeds of this book will be donated to Palestinian LGBTQ+ human rights groups.

George Abraham (he/they) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2027) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the editor at large of Mizna and coeditor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025), which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award.

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali (she/her) is a queer Palestinian poet and associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. She is the author of Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives and the poetry chapbook agriculture of grief: prayers for my father’s dementia.

Hannah Moushabeck (she/her) is a Palestinian-American book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade and now runs Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States, alongside her family. Her debut picture book, Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books, 2023), won the New England Book Award and the Arab American Book Award.

Bint Bandora (she/they) is the alias of a queer Palestinian artist whose work emerges from her deep love and longing for the homeland. Born into diaspora, but always connected to her roots, she uses her mixed media artistic practice to explore themes of displacement, belonging, queerness, and grief. Using illustration, collage, comics, and fiber arts, Bint Bandora turns her own personal experience into visual stories that boldly speak to the greater, collective struggle. For Bint Bandora, her creative practice is a love letter to Palestine and a reminder that liberation is coming.

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