Bareed Mista3jil Part of a Two Day Conference at UCLA!

UCLA – Center for Near Eastern Studies

State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

Panel III: Gendering the Middle East
Chair: Jessica Cattelino, UCLA
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
Being Like Women to Be Better Men: The Male Mouth Veil

Sofian Merabet, The University of Texas at Austin
The Human Geography of Queer Identity Formations in Post-Civil-War Beirut, Lebanon

Nadia Dropkin, New York University
The Forty-One informants of Bareed Mistajil: A Textual Ethnography of Queer Women and Transgender Persons in Lebanon

Cortney L. Hughes, UC Irvine
Creating New Belongings: Colonial Pasts, Modern Discourses, and Reproductive Practices in Morocco

For more information on the event:

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=7668