Anne Marie Butler is assistant professor of art history and women, gender and sexuality at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA. Her scholarship focuses on contemporary Tunisian art with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and the state.Sascha Crasnow is assistant professor of art history at Drake University, USA. Her work centers on contemporary art from the SWANA region with a particular focus on critical race theory, gender, and sexuality.

• Foreword: Queer Aesthetics, Opacity, RelationalityGayatri GopinathIntroduction: Beyond Borders and BinariesAnne Marie Butler and Sascha CrasnowPart I: Unfixed Genders1. The Reawakening of the Belly Dancer and Queer RevolutionRaed Rafei2. On Private Lives in Public SpacesYasmine Nasser Diaz3. Futurist Androgynes, Persian Ironies:; Aan Iinterview with Rah Eleh Proshot Kalami4. Transing Contemporary Art: Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled JarrarAnne Marie Butler and Sascha CrasnowPart II: Intersectional Sexualities5. The When, Where, and Why of Intimacy: Codes of Coupling in Egyptian Contemporary Art Andrew Gayed6. The Vicissitudes of Self: Storytelling, Queerness, and Muslim Identity Yasmine K. Kasem7. I Only Read About Myself on Bathroom Walls and “On Behalf Of: I am an Ottoman but in Name Only”Qais Assali8. Out on Display: A Queer Negotiation of Identity and Anonymity in DiasporaDylan Volk9. Of the Confused Memory: Conor Moynihan in Conversation with Mehdi-George LahlouConor Moynihan and Mehdi-Georges LahlouPart III: Sites and Spaces10. Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Güreş’s Works Duygu Oya Ula11. Heart to Heart: Baseera Khan in Conversation with Yasmine K. Kasem Baseera Khan and Yasmine K. Kasem12. Queer Heavens: Rethinking the Islamic Garden in Contemporary ArtCharlotte Bank13. Viscosities of the known and the unknown بين الماء وبين النارGaïa Khalil and Aïcha Snoussi14. Sa’dia Rehman’s Queer Cartographies: Convivial OpacitiesNatasha BissonauthNotes on ContributorsIndex

Anne Marie Butler is assistant professor of art history and women, gender and sexuality at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA. Her scholarship focuses on contemporary Tunisian art with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and the state.Sascha Crasnow is assistant professor of art history at Drake University, USA. Her work centers on contemporary art from the SWANA region with a particular focus on critical race theory, gender, and sexuality.

• Foreword: Queer Aesthetics, Opacity, RelationalityGayatri GopinathIntroduction: Beyond Borders and BinariesAnne Marie Butler and Sascha CrasnowPart I: Unfixed Genders1. The Reawakening of the Belly Dancer and Queer RevolutionRaed Rafei2. On Private Lives in Public SpacesYasmine Nasser Diaz3. Futurist Androgynes, Persian Ironies:; Aan Iinterview with Rah Eleh Proshot Kalami4. Transing Contemporary Art: Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled JarrarAnne Marie Butler and Sascha CrasnowPart II: Intersectional Sexualities5. The When, Where, and Why of Intimacy: Codes of Coupling in Egyptian Contemporary Art Andrew Gayed6. The Vicissitudes of Self: Storytelling, Queerness, and Muslim Identity Yasmine K. Kasem7. I Only Read About Myself on Bathroom Walls and “On Behalf Of: I am an Ottoman but in Name Only”Qais Assali8. Out on Display: A Queer Negotiation of Identity and Anonymity in DiasporaDylan Volk9. Of the Confused Memory: Conor Moynihan in Conversation with Mehdi-George LahlouConor Moynihan and Mehdi-Georges LahlouPart III: Sites and Spaces10. Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Güreş’s Works Duygu Oya Ula11. Heart to Heart: Baseera Khan in Conversation with Yasmine K. Kasem Baseera Khan and Yasmine K. Kasem12. Queer Heavens: Rethinking the Islamic Garden in Contemporary ArtCharlotte Bank13. Viscosities of the known and the unknown بين الماء وبين النارGaïa Khalil and Aïcha Snoussi14. Sa’dia Rehman’s Queer Cartographies: Convivial OpacitiesNatasha BissonauthNotes on ContributorsIndex

Anne Marie Butler is assistant professor of art history and women, gender and sexuality at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA. Her scholarship focuses on contemporary Tunisian art with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and the state.Sascha Crasnow is assistant professor of art history at Drake University, USA. Her work centers on contemporary art from the SWANA region with a particular focus on critical race theory, gender, and sexuality.

• Foreword: Queer Aesthetics, Opacity, RelationalityGayatri GopinathIntroduction: Beyond Borders and BinariesAnne Marie Butler and Sascha CrasnowPart I: Unfixed Genders1. The Reawakening of the Belly Dancer and Queer RevolutionRaed Rafei2. On Private Lives in Public SpacesYasmine Nasser Diaz3. Futurist Androgynes, Persian Ironies:; Aan Iinterview with Rah Eleh Proshot Kalami4. Transing Contemporary Art: Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled JarrarAnne Marie Butler and Sascha CrasnowPart II: Intersectional Sexualities5. The When, Where, and Why of Intimacy: Codes of Coupling in Egyptian Contemporary Art Andrew Gayed6. The Vicissitudes of Self: Storytelling, Queerness, and Muslim Identity Yasmine K. Kasem7. I Only Read About Myself on Bathroom Walls and “On Behalf Of: I am an Ottoman but in Name Only”Qais Assali8. Out on Display: A Queer Negotiation of Identity and Anonymity in DiasporaDylan Volk9. Of the Confused Memory: Conor Moynihan in Conversation with Mehdi-George LahlouConor Moynihan and Mehdi-Georges LahlouPart III: Sites and Spaces10. Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Güreş’s Works Duygu Oya Ula11. Heart to Heart: Baseera Khan in Conversation with Yasmine K. Kasem Baseera Khan and Yasmine K. Kasem12. Queer Heavens: Rethinking the Islamic Garden in Contemporary ArtCharlotte Bank13. Viscosities of the known and the unknown بين الماء وبين النارGaïa Khalil and Aïcha Snoussi14. Sa’dia Rehman’s Queer Cartographies: Convivial OpacitiesNatasha BissonauthNotes on ContributorsIndex