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Sex and the Perils of Traveling Authors and Notions

Sex and the Perils of Traveling Authors and Notions REVIEW ESSAY Sex and the Perils of Traveling Authors and Notions ZEIN A G . H ALABI What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin Rashid al-Daif and Joachim Helfer Translated by Ken Seigneurie and Gary Schmidt Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015 266 pages. ISBN 9780292763104 The Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif asks the German novelist Joachim Helfer to help him schedule and interpret an interview in Literaturhaus, a distinguished literary institution in Berlin. Al-Daif would like to interview not Günter Grass or Herta Müller but an unnamed German porn actress (13). Al-Daif ’s unlikely object of interest triggers one of many conversations about heteronormativity, sexuality, and masculinity that the two writers will entertain in the “East-West Divan,”a nine-week exchange program set between Berlin and Beirut and hosted by the Berlin Wis- senschaftskolleg. Presuming that intellectual exchanges enhance cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, the organizers asked both participants to write an account of their experience. Al-Daif (2006) published in Arabic How the German Came to His Senses, a novella in which the main character, Rashid, ponders the homosexuality of his German interlocutor, Joachim. German and Lebanese literary circles alike panned al-Daif ’s work because it was perceived to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

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REVIEW ESSAY Sex and the Perils of Traveling Authors and Notions ZEIN A G . H ALABI What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin Rashid al-Daif and Joachim Helfer Translated by Ken Seigneurie and Gary Schmidt Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015 266 pages. ISBN 9780292763104 The Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif asks the German novelist Joachim Helfer to help him schedule and interpret an interview in Literaturhaus, a distinguished literary institution in Berlin. Al-Daif would like to interview not Günter Grass or Herta Müller but an unnamed German porn actress (13). Al-Daif ’s unlikely object of interest triggers one of many conversations about heteronormativity, sexuality, and masculinity that the two writers will entertain in the “East-West Divan,”a nine-week exchange program set between Berlin and Beirut and hosted by the Berlin Wis- senschaftskolleg. Presuming that intellectual exchanges enhance cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, the organizers asked both participants to write an account of their experience. Al-Daif (2006) published in Arabic How the German Came to His Senses, a novella in which the main character, Rashid, ponders the homosexuality of his German interlocutor, Joachim. German and Lebanese literary circles alike panned al-Daif ’s work because it was perceived to

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Published: Mar 1, 2018

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