The book, set over 24 hours, tells the story of Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, and trying to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and religious upheaval. The West-and specifically the United States-is at once imagined as a space of sexual freedom and as a place of political, economic, and ethnic marginalization. Haddad's debut novel Guapa was released in March 2016 by Other Press. Christmas song 'Lets decorate' - 3KTrack. The essay pays special attention to the ways in which sexual and economic liberation are entangled with complex Western presences within Lebanon. TikTok video from Guapa Dalterio (guapastylez): 'Promo christmas Book Now The Real OG Magic MiisterBrøwn Angelo Prestige Clutch darlinedesgranges0 Ali H Shah CHEZMISS Paddle'. While Guapa is set in a hybrid Arab city, its depiction of a queer undercommons in a world shaped by US military and economic imperialism is insightful in understanding Lebanon’s social landscape and the transnational roots of its poverty. In particular, I demonstrate how Guapa attempts to formulate an existence beyond unfettered capitalism coarticulated with futurities beyond heterosexuality and patriarchy. I have retained the spelling of Arabic words as they appear in English in texts by other authors, including the novel Guapaby Saleem Haddad. I argue for the methodological advantages of reading for a queer undercommons rather than simply reading the novel in a genre of queer (Arab) fiction, as both existing scholarship and popular coverage have done. This article reads Saleem Haddad’s 2016 novel Guapa alongside the 2019 Lebanese revolution to elucidate how the concept of the undercommons, coined by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, can help remedy limited understandings of the role that economic precarity plays in conceptions of sexuality and citizenship in the Middle East.
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