Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East

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An illuminating account of queer lives in the Gulf and the Middle East, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction Blending reportage, memoir and new travel writing, Guest Privileges is about queer lives and subcultures in the Gulf and the Middle East, specifically among the region's many global migrant communities. Pre- and misconceptions swirl around the region, and Gaar Adams sets out to try and answer why many people, including himself, choose to make a home somewhere that could cause them so much risk, personally and politically.

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Gaar Adams' work has been published in the Atlantic, Foreign Policy and NPR. Guest Privileges is his first book.