On sexuality-Part 2
- Author
- Rania Kurdi
- Published
- Tue 21 Sep 2021
- Episode Link
- https://shows.acast.com/breaking-free/episodes/on-sexuality-madian-jazerah
My guest Madian Al Jazerah is a successful businessman and human rights activist living in Jordan. His story is a story of searching for identity and worth.
In Part two of the episode of Breaking Free- On sexuality, he shares an honest account of how the Gulf war left him knowing what it was like to be a refugee, coping with depression and having to go into witness protection in San Francisco after being gay bashed and much more.
He is described in the preface of his incredible memoir " ARE YOU THIS? OR ARE YOU THIS? " as:
"A Palestinian but wasn't raised in Palestine, Kuwaiti-born but not Kuwaiti, British-educated but not a westerner, a gay man out of the closet but still living in the shadows."
Things we talk about :
- The impact of the Gulf war on Madian and his family (2:00)
- A dark time in Madian's life (7:30)
- Saved by Ellen in San Francisco and outed as Gay (9:30)
- Learning to lie from a young age (11.00)
- Madian comes out to his siblings by FedEX when he thinks he has cancer (12:00)
- Witness protection (15:00)
- Moving to Jordan and finding familiar faces from Madian's life back in Kuwait (16:20)
- Succeeding in business with Zuwwadeh restaurant and Books@cafe (18:00)
- The hell of living in Limbo in Texas (26:35)
- New York, abuse and recognizing a victim pattern (28:00)
- Madian's search for his real name and identity after the loss of his father (32:00)
- Visiting Jenin (35:45)
Madian Al Jazerah's memoir ARE YOU THIS ? OR ARE YOU THIS? :
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