{"id":63056,"date":"2026-05-25T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostrafire.com\/?p=63056"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:00:45","slug":"roundtable-the-revolution-of-queer-arab-and-persian-cinema-thursday-11-18h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostrafire.com\/en\/2026\/roundtable-the-revolution-of-queer-arab-and-persian-cinema-thursday-11-18h\/","title":{"rendered":"Round table &#8220;The revolution of Arab and Persian queer cinema&#8221; \u2013 Thursday 11, 6pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following this year&#8217;s theme, we propose our traditional <strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/mostrafire.com\/en\/fire-pro\/#taula-rodona\">round table on the theme &#8220;The revolution of Arab and Persian queer cinema&#8221;.<\/a><\/u><\/strong> While it is true that Arab and Iranian LGBTIQ+ collectives are still fighting to achieve fundamental rights, their queer scenes, spurred on by the globalization of social networks or the circulation of LGBTIQ audiovisual productions, have become increasingly visible. To talk about this slow but irremediable (r)evolution, different Lebanese professionals from the audiovisual world will be with us, with the Lebanese queer community perhaps being the most active in this movement: the cultural curator and independent programmer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amar.sokhn\/\">Amar Sokhen<\/a><\/strong>, the producer and filmmaker <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pro.festivalscope.com\/director\/liliane-rahal\">Liliane Rahal<\/a><\/strong> and the director <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohamadmoesabbah.com\/\">Mohammad Moe Sabbah<\/a><\/strong>, with the moderation of the director, photographer and <em>performer<\/em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hadi.moussally\/\">Hadi Moussally<\/a><\/strong>, alias <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salmazahore.com\/\">Salma Zahore<\/a><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>More info <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mostrafire.com\/en\/fire-pro\/#taula-rodona\">&gt; here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following this year&#8217;s theme, we propose our traditional round table on the theme &#8220;The revolution of Arab and Persian queer <a href=\"https:\/\/mostrafire.com\/en\/2026\/roundtable-the-revolution-of-queer-arab-and-persian-cinema-thursday-11-18h\/\"> &#8230; LLEGIR +<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1234"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Round table &quot;The revolution of Arab and Persian queer cinema&quot; \u2013 Thursday 11, 6pm | FIRE!!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mostrafire.com\/en\/2026\/roundtable-the-revolution-of-queer-arab-and-persian-cinema-thursday-11-18h\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Round table &quot;The revolution of Arab and Persian queer cinema&quot; \u2013 Thursday 11, 6pm | FIRE!!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following this year&#8217;s theme, we propose our traditional round table on the theme &#8220;The revolution of Arab and Persian queer ... 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