The Perfumed Garden is an autobiography of an Arab World.It is a novel written through a series of multimedia experiments documented on this site.
These experiments are later planted in the novel’s setting, an imagined borderless Arab world sourcing real people as its characters, yielding a narrative that challenges what can and cannot materialize in that Arab world.
The novel, with its title derived from Cheikh Nafzaoui’s 16th century Manual of Arabian Erotology, is an act of intercourse with a place that has forgotten its sex, attempting to breed an alternative sense of identity.
These experiments are later planted in the novel’s setting, an imagined borderless Arab world sourcing real people as its characters, yielding a narrative that challenges what can and cannot materialize in that Arab world.
The novel, with its title derived from Cheikh Nafzaoui’s 16th century Manual of Arabian Erotology, is an act of intercourse with a place that has forgotten its sex, attempting to breed an alternative sense of identity.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Raafat Majzoub is an architect, author and artist living in Beirut. He graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelors in Architecture in 2009, and founded his multidisciplinary studio a year later in Tripoli. +236m3 is a place to create without emphasis on discipline. Through his studio, he published his debut novel Fetish Systems and a zine called The Purple Haut-Parleur. In 2012, he co-founded The Outpost quarterly magazine with Ibrahim Nehme, and was the creative director of its first four issues. He currently writes The Farewell Chronicles, a weekly opinion column on Al-Akhbar English and is a writer and strategist at .PSLAB
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“Everything leads to the belief that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low, are not perceived as contradictions.” 
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THANK YOUS
Roy Dib, Frida Chehlaoui, Joan Baz, Ibrahim Nehme, Layal Hasrouni, Shoghag Ohannessian, Omeia Malaeb, Anoud Al-Zaben, Lea Ksayer, Abdallah ElChami, Nader Khelifi, Zeyad Salem, Jana Jammal, Mahira Bshara, Rana Beiruti
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