The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax: Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring

by Andrew Orr

The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its author claimed to be Amina Arraf, a Syrian American lesbian Muslim woman living in Damascus. After the blog's went viral in April 2011, Western journalists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111056570
• ISBN13: 9783111056579
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"