Suad Jabr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suad Jabr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suad |
| FAMILY NAME | Jabr |
| SIGNATURE | JABR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disrupting Self-Representations
In an increasingly hostile global asylum system, queer SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) refugee memoirs make political claims as sites of self-representation. In this paper, I analyse three Canadian-published queer SWANA refugee memoirs– Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist by Arsham Parsi and Marc Colbourne, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib, and Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Mem…
Not the Paradise We Imagined”
The use of “true self” in western media coverage of queer Middle Eastern refugees is a contradictory, unattainable identity for queer Middle Eastern refugees. This “true self” suggests that queer Middle Eastern refugees are only able to live out their essential queer selves after receiving asylum and moving to the west. This narrative of true selfhood ignores the rupturing, transformative process of refugeehood, as well as the geographical-histor…
Not the Paradise We Imagined”
The use of “true self” in western media coverage of queer Middle Eastern refugees is a contradictory, unattainable identity for queer Middle Eastern refugees. This “true self” suggests that queer Middle Eastern refugees are only able to live out their essential queer selves after receiving asylum and moving to the west. This narrative of true selfhood ignores the rupturing, transformative process of refugeehood, as well as the geographical-histor…
Not the Paradise We Imagined”
The use of “true self” in western media coverage of queer Middle Eastern refugees is a contradictory, unattainable identity for queer Middle Eastern refugees. This “true self” suggests that queer Middle Eastern refugees are only able to live out their essential queer selves after receiving asylum and moving to the west. This narrative of true selfhood ignores the rupturing, transformative process of refugeehood, as well as the geographical-histor…
Disrupting Self-Representations
In an increasingly hostile global asylum system, queer SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) refugee memoirs make political claims as sites of self-representation. In this paper, I analyse three Canadian-published queer SWANA refugee memoirs– Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist by Arsham Parsi and Marc Colbourne, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib, and Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Mem…
Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)