Queer Arab Women's Voices in Film, Fiction, and Cyberspace (2013)

Undergraduate: Karen Alderfer

Faculty Advisor: Sahar Amer
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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This thesis examines queer women's blogs and other forms of Internet writing in the Arab world and how these new forms of writing are inserting themselves into more traditional forms of cultural production—the novel and film. It first explores queer writing on the Internet in the form of blogs and online literary journals asking the questions: how do queer women represent themselves on the Internet? Is there greater freedom of expression? Secondly, it investigates new trends in fiction and film "techno-writing" and how this works to break down boundaries between "reality" and cyberspace and attempts to extend online liberation of identity into a wider liberation.