Ahmed Afzal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ahmed Afzal is involved.
Articles
2016 “Being gay has been a curse for me”: Gay Muslim Americans, narrative and negotiations of belonging in the Muslim ummah Queering Borders: Language, sexuality, and migration, Murray, David A.B. (ed.), pp. 61–86 | Article
2014 “Being gay has been a curse for me”: Gay Muslim Americans, narrative and negotiations of belonging in the Muslim ummah Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration, Murray, David A.B. (ed.), pp. 60–86 | Article
In this essay, I draw on ethnographic research with South Asian Muslim American gay men of Pakistani descent in Houston to explore everyday negotiations of religion, race, sexuality and transnationalism. The essay highlights three intersecting registers that situate gay Muslim American sexual… read more