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The Clothesline Swing

Ahmad Danny Ramadan
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Region

North Africa

Syria

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

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Fiction

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A Syrian narrator tells their dying partner stories from their shared queer life in Damascus and as refugees in Canada — love, war, displacement, and memory. Included as a North African/Middle East queer diaspora text.

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One of the first queer Arab diaspora novels; a vital voice from the Syrian diaspora

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A Syrian narrator tells their dying partner stories from their shared queer life in Damascus and as refugees in Canada — love, war, displacement, and memory. Included as a North African/Middle East queer diaspora text. One of the first queer Arab diaspora novels; a vital voice from the Syrian diaspora

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