09/05/2026
We’ll have the honor to open the festival with Elias Jahshan, to talk about his latest book This Q***r Arab Family.
🌱05/06 18:30
🏡La Balsamine, avenue félix marchal 1, 1030 Schaerbeek
🗣️ EN (the reading and the discussion will be in English
Elias Jahshan (he/him) is a Lebanese-Palestinian journalist and writer, and the editor of groundbreaking anthologies THIS ARAB IS Q***R (2022) and THIS Q***R ARAB FAMILY (2025), both published by Saqi Books. This Arab Is Q***r was a 2023 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the USA and shortlisted for the 2023 Bread & Roses Award in the UK, and has been translated into Italian and soon in French.
His short memoir ‘Coming Out Palestinian’ was anthologised in Arab, Australian, Other (ed. Randa Abdel-Fattah & Sara Saleh; Picador, 2019), while ‘Bittersweet Memories of a Palestinian Knight’ was anthologised in Ask the Night for a Dream (ed. Susan Muaddi Darraj; Palestine Writes Press, 2024). More recently, he was featured in the brand new anthology Homosexual Intifada (ed. Hannah Moushabek & George Abraham; Interlink Books, 2026) with his chapter ‘Palestinian Dreaming’. Elias is also a former editor-in-chief of Star Observer, Australia’s longest-running LGBTQ+ media outlet, and has been published in The Guardian, The New Arab, Gay Times, Attitude, Raseef22, Shado Mag, My Kali, and more.
Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Elias now lives in London, UK
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