Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut AUTH-4965181 became a model

became a model

when he was teaching Bible-school classes to poor mountain people in Ozone

so although they would like to paint they lack the confidence to do so

which he presents with care

and even though she's wearing the perfect outfit

Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut AUTH-4965181 became a modelDisruptive 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