{"id":52897,"date":"2026-06-13T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/?p=52897"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:00:13","slug":"between-haifa-and-passy-queer-exile-in-raji-bathishs-lappartement-rue-de-passy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/nl\/2026\/06\/13\/between-haifa-and-passy-queer-exile-in-raji-bathishs-lappartement-rue-de-passy\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Haifa and Passy: queer exile in Raji Bathish\u2019s \u201cL\u2019appartement rue de Passy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Met&nbsp;<em>L\u2019appartement rue de Passy<\/em>, Palestinian writer&nbsp;<strong>Raji Bathish<\/strong>&nbsp;takes readers from Haifa to Paris to follow Jamil and Amir, two friends caught between desire, class, exile and disillusion. Paris appears both as a promised land of freedoms and a black hole where hopes are slowly crushed. Through a fragmented, poetic writing style, Bathish signs a deeply queer, brutally lucid novel on what it means to move, to love and to lose oneself between worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A queer pioneer from Nazareth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in&nbsp;<strong>Nazareth<\/strong>, Raji Bathish is a writer, translator and cultural researcher who has become a key figure in the new generation of Arab authors. He has published several novels \u2013 including&nbsp;<em>Vola et ses soeurs<\/em>&nbsp;en&nbsp;<em>L\u2019appartement rue de Passy<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 as well as the novella&nbsp;<em>La dame du container<\/em>&nbsp;and short story collections like&nbsp;<em>Une chambre \u00e0 Tel\u2011Aviv<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-11-145412.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-11-145412.jpg 286w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-11-145412-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-11-145412-8x12.jpg 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond fiction, he teaches at the&nbsp;<strong>Open University<\/strong>, where he works on Palestinian and Israeli cinema history, art history and narrative writing workshops. He is widely considered one of the pioneers of queer and homosexual literature in the contemporary Arab world, and a major voice in experimental writing. His work is marked by fragmentation, cross\u2011pollination between literature, art and cinema, and a constant play with gender identities, timelines, places and styles within the same text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paris as promise and trap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em>L\u2019appartement rue de Passy<\/em>, the starting \u201ccurse\u201d sets the tone: \u201cTu te contentes de trop peu.\u201d Jamil throws this line at Amir during their stay in France, like a mix of accusation and sorrow. Together, these two Palestinian friends dream of a better life and try to give meaning to their existence, oscillating between Haifa and Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Paris is not just an idealised \u201cVille lumi\u00e8re\u201d. It is both a capital of freedoms and a dark vortex where dreams and lives disintegrate. The 16th arrondissement and its balconies with dull gilding, gay saunas where orgies are woven from solitude, and art galleries filled with a French bourgeoisie that treats the \u201cother\u201d as a piece to hang on cold walls: all these settings become the stage for a human tragedy that Bathish unfolds with sharp satire and poetic language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Queer desire, class and the violence of looking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The novel dives head\u2011on into queer desire, but refuses to make it glamorous or purely tragic. Instead, it situates queer lives in the middle of intersecting forces: social mobility, racialisation, exoticisation, and the violence of being constantly looked at as an object. The gay saunas become less a space of liberation than a mirror of loneliness; the galleries show how bodies and stories can be turned into decorative \u201cdiversity\u201d for a bored elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Jamil and Amir, intimacy is never separate from these structures. Their friendship, desires and frustrations unfold while negotiating visas, precarious jobs, class codes and the weight of being Palestinian abroad. Between Haifa and Paris, every move \u2013 towards love, a different life, another city \u2013 carries both the hope of breathing and the risk of burning out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Movement as vital and fatal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the core statements of the book is brutally simple: \u201centre amour, mobilit\u00e9 sociale et d\u00e9racinement, tout mouvement est \u00e0 la fois vital et fatal.\u201d Movement is necessary \u2013 to escape, to survive, to become \u2013 but each displacement also opens new wounds. Bathish\u2019s writing does not try to resolve this tension. Instead, it lets readers sit inside it: migration as both lifeline and fracture; queer love as both horizon and hazard; Paris as both refuge and illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fragmented, intermedial style \u2013 closer at times to a film montage than a linear narrative \u2013 reinforces this feeling. Scenes follow one another like shots: apartments, balconies, bodies, streets, interiors, phone calls, memories of Haifa, ghosts from Tel\u2011Aviv, all stitched together in a language that shifts between tenderness and biting irony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why it matters for KET readers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For readers in Brussels and Belgium,&nbsp;<em>L\u2019appartement rue de Passy<\/em>&nbsp;resonates on several levels. It is a queer novel anchored in the realities of Arab diasporas, migration and class, offering a perspective still under\u2011represented in Francophone publishing. It also speaks to anyone who has projected their fantasies onto a \u201cbig Western city\u201d \u2013 Paris, Brussels, Berlin \u2013 only to discover the cracks: racism, precarity, loneliness, or the way \u201cfreedom\u201d is unevenly distributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bathish\u2019s book invites us to look at these cities not just as queer havens or villains, but as complex spaces where power, desire and violence intersect. It reminds us that for many queer migrants, every step forward is double\u2011edged: vital, and potentially fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>KET Magazine is a community\u2011driven, non\u2011profit magazine run by volunteers based in Brussels. Get in touch to share your thoughts or tell us about your activities. You can also promote your events on our website or support our work with a donation. 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