Outward: What Arabic LGBTQ+ Slang Tells Us with Marwan Kaabour

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Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode long-time friend of the show June Thomas sits down with the editor of The Queer Arab Glossary, Marwan Kaboour. The glossary is the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang and covers a wide range of dialects across the arab world. Marwan details how he decided to organize the glossary and what the words reveal about queer culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thoughtful driving tips from Eso, number three.
0:03.0	This is Kiran. He's doing 70 on the motorway,
0:07.0	on his way to a cheeky spar appointment,
0:10.0	though his diaries as he's visiting a client.
0:12.8	Naughty Kiran, lowering his speed to 60 could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey.
0:19.8	Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kiriron, slowing down a little. Hello and welcome to Outward Sleats Podcast for everything that's LGBT and Q.
0:45.9	I'm June Thomas, a longtime friend of the show and the author of a place of our own six spaces
0:52.2	that shaped queer women's culture. Now you probably don't
0:55.9	know this about me but I am by some people's standards at least a little bit of a
1:01.0	polyglot. I speak three languages, four if I'm being very generous to myself, in addition to English.
1:08.0	So a new book about two of my favorite things, languages and queer culture, really grab my attention.
1:15.1	Today I'll be talking with Marwan Cabour. Marwan is a graphic designer, an artist and writer,
1:21.9	and he's the founder of Tach queer an online archive of
1:25.3	queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture and his latest book the
1:29.6	queer Arab glossary is the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ plus language.
1:35.7	More on that after the break. I said to Rodsker the last thing you are fair and balanced that should have been my
1:48.4	slogan when the Fox News channel first went on the air, it promised to change television.
1:54.5	Few broadcasts take any chances these days and most are very politically correct.
1:59.6	Well, we're going to be different.
2:01.4	It's going to be kick-ass and I want to be part of it.
2:05.4	I'm Josh Levine.
2:06.7	In this season of Sloburn, we'll look at the moment in the early 2000s
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