Elias Jahshan

Elias Jahshan (he/him) is a Palestinian Lebanese journalist and writer. He is the editor of THIS ARAB IS QUEER (Saqi, 2022), which was nominated for a 2023 Lambda Literary Award (LGBTQ Anthology category) in the US and was shortlisted in the 2023 Bread & Roses Award in the UK.

His writing has been published in anthologies including Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity (ed. Randa Abdel-Fattah & Sara Saleh; Picador, 2019) and Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing From the Diaspora (ed. Susan Muaddi Darraj; Palestine Writes Press, 2024).

Elias is a former editor of Star Observer, Australia’s longest-running queer media outlet. He has written for The Guardian, Gay Times, Attitude, Shodo Mag, Raseef22, The New Arab and My

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