Yuyen Lin-Woywod is an artist whose practice primarily revolves around video media and installation works, focusing on themes of personal identity under political structures, queer theory, and cultural exchange. Yuyen’s research delves into how culinary practices become spaces where identity, memory, belonging, and difference are discussed across different cultures and countries. Starting [...]
On Thursday 10 September, NOG member Nisrine Chaer will defend her dissertation ‘The Paradox of Respectability and the Pitfalls of Gender Queer Migration in Lebanon and the Netherlands’. In this thesis, she examines how queer people in Lebanon and the Netherlands are confronted with the ‘paradox of respectability’. In her dissertation, Chaer [...]
Masterclass with Dr. Adriana Qubaiova How to study sexuality in West Asia (Middle East)? September 11, 2026, 13:30 - 17:00 hrs Utrecht University Sexuality studies in the field of Middle East Area Studies face an irreconcilable tension today: how can scholars employ a European modern category of analysis such as [...]
