Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut Format:Paperback the more vulnerable you get

the more vulnerable you get

He veers into a dangerous romance with his guard and jailer - a man he may have to kill

With her Pack under siege by humans and Praeterns

-- Juan Felipe Herrera

Mia Torwood moves from San Francisco to the central coast of California when her husband Tom buys a winery

Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut Format:Paperback the more vulnerable you getDisruptive 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