This Queer Arab Family
Tue 17 Feb
|Social Refuge
A conversation with author Elias Jahshan to discuss his latest book!
Time & Location
17 Feb 2026, 19:00 – 21:00
Social Refuge, 27 Great Ancoats St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5AJ, UK
About the event
In Conversation with Elias Jahshan ❤️
Join us at Queer Lit for a captivating evening as the curator of This Arab is Queer, the brilliant Elias Jahshan is with us to discuss his experience curating his newest anthology This Queer Arab Family!
A collection of bold, beautiful celebrations of queer Arab life in all its complexity, joy and resilience awaits you in this powerful new anthology. Elias masterfully brings together ten LGBTQ+ Arab voices reimagining what family means – from queer parenting to radical art, from survival to happiness.
'A vital addition to the landscape of Arab queer and trans literature. May this beautiful anthology open the way for many more to come.' Zeyn Joukhadar
'Jahshan orchestrates a symphony of perspectives that echo across geography and experience, bound together by strength and vulnerability. It's simultaneously a celebration, an act of resistance, a declaration of devotion, and an assurance that isolation…
Tickets
General Admission
£5.00
+£0.13 ticket service fee
Admission + Book
This ticket includes admission to the event and one copy of This Queer Arab Family
£15.00
+£0.38 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00