Many elements in Arab pop culture are already very drag and very queer. ADIRA Drag Festival emerged from a need to create our own queer Arab space.

It is 6:45 in the morning, and the temperature has plummeted to minus 21 degrees. I find myself waiting for bus number 121 at Grimard Station, only my eyes peeking out from the bundle of clothes. At this moment, I half-expect any tears I shed to freeze on the way down. The uncontrollable urge to cry has been a part of me ever since the…

Syrian writer and former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh talks revolution, Europe’s Syrian diaspora, and being “tragically hopeful” with Le Monde’s Christophe Ayad on the occasion of ten years since the Syrian uprising.