Please join us on Sunday December 12 at 3 pm for a discussion with Dr. Jasbir Puar, professor of women and gender studies at Rutgers University. Dr. Puar is the author of the award-winning book Terrorist Assemblanges: Homonationalism in Queer Times, which examines how discourses surrounding sexuality and race are mobilized in the service of war, nation-building, and imperialism.

This book has been a long time coming. Enough invisibility, enough denial.

Homophobia is something that permeates every aspect of our lives, sometimes in ways too subtle to detect, and other times with overt violence.

"Homophobia: Views and Positions" ((رهاب المثلية: مواقف وشهادات is a book that breaks the silence around this social ill, claiming loudly that it is not homosexuals that are deviant and in need of treatment, but homophobes themselves.

This book is the first of its kind in Arabic in the region, but we certainly hope it won't be the last. Bringing together some of Lebanon's most gifted writers as well as a host of local intellectuals and activists, Homophobia is a book that challenges and sparks much needed debate in our societies about the violence that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals face
and the silence that protects and condones it.