Djinn / Tofik Dibi ; translated and with an introduction by Nicolaas P. Barr.
"The son of Moroccan immigrants, Dibi was elected to the Dutch Parliament in 2006, at just twenty-six years old. During his six years of service, he fought for the equal rights of Muslim migrants against a political elite that cast them as misogynists, as homophobes, and, after 9/11, as terrori...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Dutch |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "The son of Moroccan immigrants, Dibi was elected to the Dutch Parliament in 2006, at just twenty-six years old. During his six years of service, he fought for the equal rights of Muslim migrants against a political elite that cast them as misogynists, as homophobes, and, after 9/11, as terrorists. But Dibi himself never came out publicly as queer-until he wrote Djinn. A bestseller upon its publication in Dutch in 2015, Djinn tells the poignant, at times heartbreaking story of Dibi's coming of age as a gay Muslim man with humor and grace. From his Amsterdam childhood to his experiences in New York City clubs and chatrooms and unlikely political ascent, Djinn offers a window onto contemporary issues of race, religion, sexuality, and human rights in and beyond Europe. Yet it also promises readers who, like Dibi as a young man, may not see themselves reflected in books, movies, and TV shows an all too rare sense of visibility and recognition"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in 2015 by Uitgeverij Prometheus, Amsterdam."--copyright page. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 132 pages). |
| ISBN: | 1438481314 9781438481319 |