Love: Revolutionizing love through Arab and/or Muslim wisdom

There are politicians who constantly urge women to reveal themselves. The media which convey the image of the “beurette” or the “Arab boy” in jogging pants and sneakers, imbued with sexism and racism. Or the colonial legacy that eroticizes the bodies of racialized people: women as objects of fantasy and domination and men for their hypervirility. Refusing to conform to these stereotypes and rooted in his own experience as an Arab Muslim man in France, Jamal Ouazzani undertakes in this much-needed essay an intimate and political journey into a society marked by deep and systemic divisions. By exploring and drawing inspiration from fourteen centuries of Arab and/or Muslim culture, it reveals the richness of an often overlooked heritage that offers a space of inclusion for all identities and invites us to rethink our conceptions of love. “To love against all odds, against protocols and borders, beyond sexes and genders, beliefs and colors. »