Come out and spend a fabulous evening with drag royalty Sultana! Professors Tarek El-Ariss (Middle Eastern Studies) and Eng-Beng Lim (WGSS) will serve as her consorts of queer performance as she sings and talks her way into glitter galore!

Fares Rizk aka Sultana is a Palestinian-American performer living in NYC. He’s an artist and a major figure in the NY drag scene and will bring an important perspective to questions of queer performativity to our students. Sultana deals in her performance with questions of gender, queerness, but also displacement as a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Jordan and Lebanon and now lives in NYC. The performance and discussion with the performer highlights fundamental question dealing with gender and sexual identity, belonging, and displacement. The event will foster an examination of the relation between art form and self expression, thereby expanding Dartmouth community’s understanding of questions of identity at multiple level.

Fares Riz has an M.F.A in painting from Parsons School of Design. He has worked in the jewelry industry in NY, performs at the iconic West Village venue Lips, and is an internationally acclaimed painter with works at the National Gallery of Jordan and MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Yinchuan China.

Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality; Comparative Literature; Ethics Institute; Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.