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polyphonic, and collective biography-as-ethnography, to further explore how the juxtaposition of precarious narratives and their concomitant survival strategies simultaneously reflects and transcends subjective individual experience. Overall though, Moussawi’s creative-critical process of engaging the cultural ills of queer people’s surroundings, through Orientalist fractals cohering with the practice and theory of al wad’, showcases a compelling and overdue response (and riposte) to the Orientalist discourses and quotidian disruptions the Lebanese continuously contend with. Because the counter-narrative possibilities of Moussawi’s surveyed queer tactics carry survival quality that cannot be ignored, and, as this book suggests, will no longer be silenced the more audible dissident voices become, these strategies ‘also gesture toward an expansive understanding of queerness – one that does not necessarily link to LGBT identities but to practices of negotiating everyday life’ (6). Gender aside,Disruptive Situations develops, through both al wad’ and Orientalist fractals, a discussion on iniquity and survival that is relevant to everyone – kulluna (all of us) – who may dwell in struggling, deeply fragmented contexts, scholars and non-academics alike. In combining fresh, candid fieldwork with careful, nuanced theorizing, Moussawi’s penmanship is impressively accessible, despite the rigor of his research. The book is recommended to a broad baseline of readers interested in interdisciplinary gender research, queer methodology and theory, Middle Eastern studies, and Arab and Islamic ethnography, as well as transnational, urban and area studies in sexuality or sociology.