Through the reading of the character "Atiyat" in the play "Kasak Ya Watan" and based on oral history interviews with the people of that era, Aram Al-Maidani weaves the "legend" of Zuzu, known in the neighborhoods of Damascus, and presents an exciting reading about his role as an inspiration for the theatre play and as a well-known figure in the 1970s and 1980s in the LGBT community. A not stereotypical expression of gender identity.
"A man and a woman in one body it was a ray of light that fired up my imagination in an era before any usage of the many letters that now bring together a multitude of colorful communities under their rainbow."
How can we create a sustainable queer archive that has the potential to become a reference for LGBTIQ people, civil society, and the Syrian artistic and cultural public sphere?