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Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and emergency physician Tarek Loubani were arrested by Egyptian police on August 16, 2013 in Cairo. We at McGill-Queen’s University Press are deeply concerned for their well-being and hope for their swift and safe return.
The following is excerpted from The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson, edited Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie and Thomas Waugh.
Greyson’s work has always been simultaneously local and global, evolving out of a tight circle of Toronto collaborators but capacious in its global concerns and affiliations. He remains an inspirational activist, a veteran of decades of struggle in the queer community who literally puts his body on the line, as he did in the summer of 2011 when he joined the Canadian boat, the Tahrir, intending (unsuccessfully) to break the blockade of Gaza. But he is also an artist whose inventiveness and creative daring and maturity only increase with each new project.
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Greyson has often referred to his work as a mode of dialogue or provocation, imagining himself, as he puts it to Peter Steven in a 1991 interview, as “a speaker in a room full of people…[proposing] a set of ideas and challenges.” It is in the same spirit that we offer this set of twenty-six essays together with a collection of Greyson-authored interventions and critical writings. When Greyson imagines a room full of feisty interlocutors as his ideal audience, his room, of course, is a very special space. The fourth wall has naturally dissolved, and the room (full of trompe l’oeils, trap doors, false panels, ghosts, and historical apparitions) is infinitely capacious, in a mode of constant expansion and generous embrace of old friends, new guests, fellow travellers, and a rich and diverse mix of queers and straights, radicals and eccentrics, scholars and artists, homeless people and demonstrators from around the world.
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