Treading Gulf Waters by Ahmad Makia

Published by Kibu Press

Zero Edition, limited to 100 copies, 2026

95 x 150 mm, 32 pages

Softcover 

This essay reveals fluidity in geography, gender identity, and literary devices upon maritime relations in the Khaleej and Indian Ocean. It explores how queer sex-workers interacted with imperial-settler Omani east African society and reads into race and sex in the colonized Swahili coast, disruption of the homogenous, land-locked Khaleej vision and its methods of governance.