National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective

Achim Rohde is a Middle East historian and scientific coordinator of the research network "Re-Configurations: History, Remembrance and Transformative Processes in the Middle East and North Africa" at the Center for Near and Middle East Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg. Christina von Braun is the co-director of The Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, established in 2012. She was nominated full professor in 1994 at Humboldt University, Institute for Cultural History and Theory. Before, she worked as a freelance writer and film maker in New York, Paris, and Bonn, authoring 13 monographs, many edited books and more than fifty films. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum studied Modern History, Ethnology and Political Science at the Universities of Göttingen, Germany, and Barcelona, Spain. She gained her PhD in 1993 from the University of Bochum, Germany. She has been head of the German branch of the Leo Baeck Institute since 2009, and Director of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Berlin, since 2011.

• Introduction. National politics and sexuality in transregional perspective: The homophobic argument (Achim Rohde, Christina von Braun and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum) PART I Europe 1. A post- progressive nation: Homophobia, Islam, and the new social question in the Netherlands (Paul Mepschen) 2. Becoming family: Orientalism, homonormativity, and queer asylum in Norway (Deniz Akin and Stine Helena Bang Svendsen) 3. Homophobia as identity politics and a tool for political manipulation in the former Yugoslavia (Hana Ćopić) 4. Contemporary art versus homophobia: Selected Eastern European cases (Pawel Leszkowicz) 5. "How gay is Germany?": Homosexuality, politics, and racism in historical perspective (Claudia Bruns) PART II Middle East / North Africa 6 "An oriental vice": Representations of sodomy in early Zionist discourse (Ofri Ilani) 7. Arabic literary narratives on homosexuality (Jolanda Guardi) 8. Gay in North African literature? (Max Kramer) 9. The struggle of LGBT people for recognition in Turkey: An analysis of legal discourses (Pinar Ilkkaracan) 10. Gays, cross- dressers, and Emos: Non-normative masculinities in militarized Iraq (Achim Rohde) Index