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Edwin Nasr

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Cue Profanities

Cue Profanities

Transgressing the permissibility of speech amid Lebanon’s uprising

Embracing acts of profanity within a highly polarizing setup is a slippery task; one made all the more joyful—one might even say pedagogical—when navigating the puzzling terrain requires we dig through its components along the way. For a profanity to find its footing, for it to take on its contagious potential and produce necessary injury, it must be intoned in a space regarded as sacred.