Homosexual Intifada

“Through essays, stories, poems, photos and art of this timely anthology, there runs the painful realization that one freedom cannot be cancelled with or for another freedom. One needs to fight for both – and all – freedoms at the same time.” – Tabish Khair, award-winning author of Nameste Trump and Other Stories“By turns enchanting and erudite, humorous and heartbreaking, this collection of folktales, poetry, and memoir provides a fascinating look at queer Palestinian culture and resistance. Boldly addressing the false belief that queerness does not exist in Arab or Middle Eastern culture…For queer Palestinians, the joint liberation struggle is unstoppable, “Intifada—the refusal to disappear. Intifada—our love of the land and one another. Intifada—our future inevitable.” A unique and outstanding anthology. “Most Anticipated New Book Releases in June 2026

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, and performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna and co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.

Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books, The Quarto Group, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.

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