Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut Format:Paperback He veers into a dangerous

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Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut Format:Paperback He veers into a dangerousDisruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls "fractal orientalism," a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism operate on