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From the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow Based on the New York Times' Critic Pick muslim "The first book about the Hajj from a gay perspective, written by a man with a deep knowledge of Islamic history. This pilgrimage is the centerpiece of his book, and he recounts it with courage and fierce emotion.

Daringly reported from its frontlines and forbidden to most of humanity for centuries. The Hajj pilgrimage is a journey every Muslim is commanded by God to go on at least once in a lifetime if they are able and, like millions, Parvez Sharma believes his book salvation lies at Islam's ground zero, Mecca.

But unlike the journeys of his fellow Muslims, the consequences of his own could be deadly. Risking his life, Parvez embarks on a Jihad of the self—filming his experience muslim the way. Already under fire for his documentary A Jihad for Lovewhich looks at the coexistence of Islam and homosexuality, he would undoubtedly face savage punishment if exposed—from being thrown off a cliff to public beheading.

Parvez's odyssey is at once audacious, global, and remarkable. He meets everyone from extremists to explorers of the spiritual kind and the world they open up is frightening. In Mecca, Parvez comes out to a pilgrim, who then asks him why he would want to be part of something that wants no part of him.

This book is his answer to this question and many more. Parvez provides an unflinching look at our troubling unfolding history, including Hizbullah, ISIS, Trump, the race-wars, an embattled Europe, and more. He offers real solutions, borne of his efforts to get his hands dirty to find them.

This is a lived history—and its author is no armchair theorist. A Sinner in Mecca is simultaneously one man's personal odyssey as gay as a groundbreaking, provocative revelation of a clandestine world and its fastest growing and most contested religion. Parvez Sharma is an award-winning filmmaker and writer honored as a Guggenheim Fellow.

He also directed and produced the multiple award-winning A Jihad for Lovewhich premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and opened the prestigious Panorama Dokumente section of the Berlin International Film Festival. The film went on to screen for over eight million people in 51 nations bar was theatrically distributed in the US and Canada.

He was named one of "50 Visionaries who are Changing your World," in a list headed by the Dalai Lama. He has become a prominent speaker on Muslim issues speaking at hundreds of live events around the world gay conducting workshops with the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security. You have no bar how many rich Saudi fuckers come here," Babak said.

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The Saudis? They walk around like they are so butch, but once naked they are all bottoms. Babak was the twenty-something founder of Arabian Bears, who organized "Bear" tours of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan for Western gay men keen to sample the delights of the region. Bears, for those not initiated into the ghettoization of Western homosexuality, are the gay men who do not conform to "body fascist" stereotypes and flaunt the hair on their bodies and the ample meat on their bones.

Or, as a friend said, "They are just gay men who have given up. It was Ramadanalmost the end of Islamic year The year would be momentous, but I didn't know it then. I was in Beirut to talk to the Lebanese about God and sex.