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- Engagement 19.98%
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About Marwan Kaabour مروان
Marwan Kaabour مروان (@ustaz_marwan) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists. The account has 29,235 followers and 1,022 published posts. Recent posts average 6,591 likes and 238 comments, an engagement rate of 19.98%.
With 29.2K followers, Marwan Kaabour مروان is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Marwan Kaabour مروان follows 1,748 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. Marwan Kaabour مروان carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Marwan Kaabour مروان under Artist, with Music & Artists as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Marwan Kaabour مروان runs to 19 words across 5 lines. The bio mentions @takweer_. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Marwan Kaabour مروان dates from February 2024.
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1,022 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Marwan Kaabour مروان, 7 are carousels, 2 are single images and 1 is a video. That mix leans toward carousels. Marwan Kaabour مروان has built a substantial archive of 1,022 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 29 followers for each post published. Marwan Kaabour مروان also keeps 6 story highlights on the profile. 9 of those 10 carry captions, averaging 211 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include queer, arab, culture, world and takweer. The captions tag #criticalthinking, #adeskmagazine, #thequeerarabglossary, #arabqueervoices and #queerarab.
سينقل جثمانه الطاهر من مستشفى المقاصد في الطريق الجديدة، ليصلى عليه ظهر يوم الجمعة الواقع في ٢٧ آذار ٢٠٢٦ في مسجد الخاشقجي حيث يوارى الثرى في جبانة الشهداء.
تقبل التعازي في الأول والثاني والثالث في قاعة نادي خريجي الجامعة الامريكية Alumni في الوردية (الحمراء) وذلك من الساعة الثالثة بعد الظهر لغاية الساعة السابعة مساء
With deep sorrow and grief, we announce the passing of our beloved father, the artist Ahmad Kaabour.
His body will be transferred from Al-Makassed Hospital in Tariq al-Jadida, to be prayed on at noon on Friday, March 27, 2026, at Al-Khashoggi Mosque, after which he will be laid to rest in the Al Shouhadaa Cemetery.
Condolences will be received on the first, second, and third days at the AUB Alumni Association in Wardieh (Al-Hamra) from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
It’s no joke, let me tell you that: severe exhaustion and depression and a myriad of physical symptoms, it scared the hell out of me. Around fifty events in 25 cities over a few months, against the backdrop of war and genocide, did not bode well for my body or my brain. The entire system was in shambles.
At the end of last year, I wrote down a list of ambitions for 2025. One by one, I had to park them until I got better. The frustration of my own perceived failure ate at my soul. Why can’t I soldier on while I have momentum, why does the curve need to nosedive?
As I took a shot at recovery, reality took a shot at me. My dearest teta Fayza passed away, and my father’s battle with cancer raged on. Having to face and question the mortality of my dearest had me blindsided, again.
It’s been a few months now, I guess the burnout’s over, right? I can submerge myself in work again, right? Spending a year promoting my book was beautiful, but it’s all time spent not generating income.
I worked and worked, despite the glitching and twitching of my brain. Floods of tears at the tiniest trigger. Angry at myself and the world.
A “no-fault” eviction notice, it’s time to leave your home. I packed my life away in a storage unit. The bits and pieces that I was trying to pull together back into a sense of self, shattered further into smithereens.
This can not go on.
I need to disrupt this routine, throw a spanner in my works. This is not sustainable nor kind, neither is London.
I packed up and headed to Beirut, after leaving to London 15 years ago. Is it for good, or for now? I don’t have the answer(s).
All I know is that I’m focusing on catching every sunset, making my nest pretty, and hoping love will come my way. Reset.
1: with at his studio in LA
2: Putting on a leggy display on at the featuring my angels
3: Signing books in Geneva
4: Getting ready backstage with wearing for opening night
5: On the catwalk with
6: Delivering my keynote speech at in Marrakech
7: Showing off my arms in Marrakech
8: Dream band with and
9: Bellydance-off with in Athens with
10: magazine launch in Berlin
11: Iconic home babes and Sally
12: Self-portrait for
13: At the and launch at the ica (ones of my best fits this year)
14: Reading with at for
15: Cat stealing my spotlight at my lecture
16: My nudes leaking
17: My personality in two books
18: Making it!
19: Eyeroll
1–3. Publication design for “I Will Always Be Looking For You” with edited by and
4. Logo revamp for in collaboration with 5–6. Publication design for with 7. Title treatment for “Wafaa from Gaza” from Gaza by 8–10. Publication design for for 11. Limited edition of for 12. My contribution to 13. Publication design for Theatre Picasso for with and 1–16. Identity design for Finding my Blue Skies for, with 17. Publication design for for 18. Takweer featured in “Queer Histories” publication by 19. TQAG with the cutest note from at the
Marwan’s interdisciplinary practice spans communication and publication design, curation, pedagogy, and political activism. His work bridges art, culture, and social engagement, collaborating with non-profit institutions, cultural organizations, and independent creatives.
In 2019, he founded TAKWEER, an influential online platform and growing archive of queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture. His debut book, THE QUEER ARAB GLOSSARY, was published in June 2024, further cementing his role as a key voice in contemporary queer cultural production.
Originally from Beirut, Marwan moved to London in 2011 for his master’s in Graphic Design, later joining the renowned design agency Barnbrook. He founded his own design and art practice in 2020.
We are delighted to welcome his vision and cultural insight to this year’s jury.
"The (Positive) Deviance of Queer Culture"
In Arabic, the word deviant once clung stubbornly to queerness—on screens, in conversations, in the very language that shaped us. For years, we fought to swap it out, to correct it, to stand among the “proper” terms of modern identity. Yet today, as violence, propaganda, and capitalism devour what once felt radical, that same word returns with new power. Marwan Kaabour asks: What if deviance is not a slur to escape, but a position to claim?
“I don’t want the norm, nor do I want to assimilate,” he writes. “I want to stand out — like a thorn in your side — I want to be a deviant.” From this stance, Kaabour gathers four queer voices from the Arab world in a moment of devastation and resistance, rejecting sanitized progress in favor of unapologetic disruption.
“It is in our very deviance that queer liberation is sustained. It is in the deviance of the oppressed —whoever they may be— that collective liberation is sustained. Moral panic is nothing but a red herring. In moments when horror is tangible, we should leave no room for ambiguity. Let us be explicit and let them clutch their pearls.”
📌 This month’s texts:
• Takweer: Archive as World-Making — Sophie Chamas explores how queer Arab archival practice resists the separation of queerness from Arabness.
• I Will Always Be Looking For You — Yasmine Rifai & Nadim Choufi search relentlessly for Arab queerness through art, refusing definition and embracing multiplicity.
• Faggety Fag Dreams Between Thieves Street and Lazarus Gate — Rana Issa imagines a defiantly deviant queer utopia hungry for the collapse of fascism.
• Try not to choke when you speak my mother tongue. Try it, yalla. — Kaabour dissects how the West manufactures the image of “the Arab” as a weapon, including its myth of the gay-hating Arab.
🔗 Read the full series → A*Desk Critical Thinking → Magazine section → Link in bio
Available in English, Spanish, and Catalan
#CriticalThinking #AdeskMagazine #ArabQueerVoices
Resident Editor: Marwan Kaabour
Today: Try not to choke when you speak my mother tongue. Try it, yalla
by Marwan Kaabour
Kaabour confronts the paradox of being Arab in a world that delights in his culture while erasing his humanity. With sharp irony, he exposes how Western fascination with Arab food, language, aesthetics, and slang exists alongside dehumanisation, war, and indifference toward Arab suffering.
Tracing this violence through media, cinema, and comedy—from early Hollywood to post-9/11 caricatures like "Achmed the Dead Terrorist"—he shows the way Orientalist fantasies keep shaping how the West consumes, performs and mocks Arab identity. Kaabour reclaims the “barbarian” label with pride, insisting that fascination without solidarity is nothing but extraction.
A challenge, a warning, and a refusal:
If you love the culture, defend the people who create it. Don’t feast on our language while choking on our humanity.
“It’s a strange moment to be Arab. On one hand I see relentless violence unleashed on my people and their lands. Forces of extermination adamant on breaking the societal and cultural bonds that sit at the core of our identities. I see the pain and the suffering in the eyes of men, women and children who might as well be my own family, and I hear dehumanising language that wants to render us disposable.
On the other hand I see our music gracing international stages, and our foods infiltrating every menu and cuisine. I see “Arab representation” on the small and the big screen, and our slang uttered by every other foreign tongue.
Yalla,
Habibi.”
🔗 Read the full article on our website → A*Desk Critical Thinking → Magazine section → Link in bio
Available in English, Spanish, and Catalan
#ADeskMagazine #CriticalThinking #QueerArab #ArabCulture
Habibi:
Host:
Wine:
Editor:
Videographer:
Support:
Photographer:
Music:
Fishbowl: & Alexandra Bouga
#TheQueerArabGlossary #BustanAthina #AthensInsider #BustanStudio #CommunityInTranslation
Greek:
Τι βραδιά. Ανάμεσα σε συζητήσεις, φαγητό και χαρά, μετατρέψαμε τον διάλογο σε σύνδεση. Το Bustan έδωσε ζωή στις λέξεις — πέρα από γλώσσες, τραπέζια και καρδιές. Μια γιορτή ιστοριών, κοινότητας και της ομορφιάς του να είμαστε μαζί.
Saqi is delighted to announce #TheQueerArabGlossary – the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang.
When conventional language does not equip us with the tools to speak about ourselves, we create our own. Slang expresses words and feelings that break down boundaries. It is a form of protest and fills in the gaps.
This bold guide captures the lexicon of the queer Arab community in all its differences, quirks and felicities. It features more than 300 terms in both English and Arabic, ranging from the humorous to the harrowing, serious to tongue-in-cheek, and insightful essays by leading queer Arab artists, academics, activists and writers.
With beautiful, witty illustrations, The Queer Arab Glossary is a powerful response to pervasive myths and stereotypes around sexuality and an invitation to take a journey into queerness throughout the Arab world. Contributors include saqer_am
The Queer Arab Glossary was made possible with the generous support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC, Mophradat, Bashar Assaf and Mohammed Fakhro.
Available for preorder NOW!
Coming 6 June 2024.
#TQAG #takweer #Saqi #SaqiBooks
Marwan Kaabour مروان's engagement
Marwan Kaabour مروان's engagement rate on Instagram is 19.98%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 5 followers. An average post collects 6,591 likes and 238 comments, close to 28 likes for each comment.
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- 238
- Interactions : followers
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Who is Marwan Kaabour مروان?
Marwan Kaabour مروان (@ustaz_marwan) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists. Marwan Kaabour مروان carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Marwan Kaabour مروان runs to 19 words across 5 lines.
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Marwan Kaabour مروان has 29,235 followers on Instagram (29.2K). Marwan Kaabour مروان follows 1,748 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. Marwan Kaabour مروان has built a substantial archive of 1,022 posts.
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Marwan Kaabour مروان's engagement rate on Instagram is 19.98%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 5 followers. An average post collects 6,591 likes and 238 comments, close to 28 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Marwan Kaabour مروان under Artist, with Music & Artists as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Marwan Kaabour مروان, 7 are carousels, 2 are single images and 1 is a video. The 9 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Marwan Kaabour مروان repeatedly use the words queer, arab, culture, world and takweer. Marwan Kaabour مروان's captions carry hashtags such as #criticalthinking, #adeskmagazine and #thequeerarabglossary. Marwan Kaabour مروان writes those captions mainly in English. Marwan Kaabour مروان keeps 6 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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