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Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 635-648

  Amireh, Amal ^a  

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EID: 78449282635     PISSN: 10642684     EISSN: 15279375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10642684-2010-009     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. See Alex Tehranian, "Gay Man Criticizes Palestinian Society", Hoya, October 22, 2004, available at www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/world/palestine/ psnews007.htm.
2. Nisreen and Dayna, "Palestinian Gays under the Hijab", Aswat www.aswatgroup.org/english/activities.php?article=422 (accessed March 31, 2010).
3. Alison Solomon, "Viva la Diva Citizenship: Post-Zionism and Gay Rights", in Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, ed. Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 153.
4. See Uri Avnery, "Who Murdered Arafat", Rense.com, September 11, 2005, www.rense.com/general67/whod.htm;
5. Aaron Klein, "Secret Report: Arafat May Have Died of AIDS", World Net Daily, September 8, 2005, www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE-ID= 46221;
6. and "Was Arafat a Homosexual Who Died of Aids", Betar-Tagar UK, September 8, 2005, www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1100400106.php.
7. James Kirchick, "Was Arafat Gay? An Old Rumor Gains New Force", Out.com, out.com/detail.asp?id=22719 (accessed March 31, 2010).
8. Kirchick, "Was Arafat Gay?"
9. Kirchick, "Was Arafat Gay?"
10. Ian Barnard, "The United States in South Africa: (Post) Colonial Queer Theory?" in Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays, ed. John C. Hawley (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001), 137.
11. For sexualizing representations of Palestinian suicide bombers, see my essay "Palestinian Women's Disappearing Act: The Suicide Bomber through Western Feminist Eyes", MIT: International Journal of Middle East Studies 5 (2005), web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes.
12. I was given access to these documents during my feld research in the West Bank in 1998. While I realize that these "confessions" were extracted under pressure and recognize their formulaic nature, I believe they are valuable in showing the powerful hold the trope of homosexuality as collaboration has in the Palestinian national discourse. For more on these "confessions", see my article, "Between Complicity and Subversion: Body Politics in Palestinian National Narrative", South Atlantic Quarterly 102 (2003):747-68. For more on Israel's use of sexual blackmail to recruit informants, see Charity Crouse, "Out and Down and Living in Israel", Indymedia, June 16, 2003, de.indymedia.org/2003/06/ 54773.shtml.
13. Michael Kagan and Anat Ben-Dor, Nowhere to Run: Palestinian Asylum-Seekers in Israel (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law, 2008), 10, available online at www.law.tau.ac.il/Heb/Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/ NowheretoRun.pdf.
14. Crouse, "Out and Down. "
15. Kagan and Ben-Dor, Nowhere to Run, 5.
16. Kagan and Ben-Dor, Nowhere to Run, 7.
17. Barnard, "United States in South Africa", 134.
18. Barnard, "United States in South Africa", 131.
19. Sahar Khalifeh, The End of Spring, trans. Paula Haydar (Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2008), 138. The square brackets contain my translation of the Arabic original, which better captures the queerness of the moment (
20. Sahar Khalifeh, Rabee' Haar [Hot Spring] [Beirut: Dar al Adab, 2004], 186).
21. For a discussion of other such moments, see Amireh, "Between Complicity and Subversion. "
22. Rauda Morcus, e-mail message to author, December 28, 2009.
23. Janet R. Jakobsen, "Queers Are Like Jews, Aren't They? Analogy and Alliance Politics", in Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, ed. Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 67.
24. Jakobsen calls for a form of analogy that "recognize[s] the complexity of relation named by it", what she calls a "relational reading" or a "twining" (71). For another critique of analogies as the basis for political alliance, see Jasbir Puar's discussion in Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 117-21.
25. As a consequence of this prioritizing paradigm, leftist and women's groups, in my opinion, could not forge a connection between what they called a "social agenda" and "a national agenda." Issues relating to sexuality, for instance, were meant to be dealt with after (national) liberation.
26. See, for example, Ernesto Pagano's interview with Joseph Massad, "The West and the Orientalism of Sexuality", Reset DOC: Dialogues on Civilization, December 14, 2009, www.resetdoc.org/EN/Massad-interview-gay.php.
27. See also, at the same URL, Ghassan Makarem's reply, "We Are Not Agents of the West", and Massad's counterreply to Makarem: "I Criticize Gay Internationalists, Not Gays."
28. David M. Halperin, "Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexualit y", Representations 63(1998):97.
29. See Sabry Hafez, "Edward Said's Intellectual Legacy in the Arab World", Journal of Palestine Studies 33, no. 3 (2004):81-83.
30. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994), xxix.