Djinn

<p><b>The gripping memoir of a young man's struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.</b></p><p>From a young age Tofik Dibi feels it-a spirit or djinn that follows him everywhere. Where it goes they go-his classmates his colleagues all the people who fear and hate it his homosexuality.</p><p>The son of Moroccan immigrants Dibi was elected to the Dutch Parliament in 2006 at just twenty-six years old. During his six years in office he fought for the equal rights of Dutch Muslims against a political elite that cast them as misogynists homophobes and after 9/11 terrorists. But Dibi himself never came out publicly as queer-until he wrote <i>Djinn</i>. A bestseller upon its publication in Dutch in 2015 it tells the poignant at times heartbreaking story of Dibi's coming-of-age as a gay Muslim man with humor and grace. From his Amsterdam childhood to his experiences in New York City clubs and internet chatrooms to his unlikely political ascent <i>Djinn</i> explores contemporary issues of race religion sexuality and human rights in and beyond Europe. Yet it also promises readers who may not see themselves reflected in popular culture-like Dibi as a young man-an all-too-rare sense of visibility and recognition.</p>