Imagining Queer Arab Futures: Intimacy, Pleasure, and Resistance

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Part of the Film and Media Studies Spring 2025 Colloquium, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali is a queer Palestinian poet and Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. She received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 2015 and an MA in Women’s Studies from Ohio State University in 2009. She is the author of Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives (Duke University Press Feb 2023) and the poetry chapbook agriculture of grief: prayers for my father’s dementia (Finishing Line Press August 2024). Previously she was an associate professor of GWST at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (2015-2024) and fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities (2023-2024). Her current research concerns affect and embodiment in Palestinian resistance.