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SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Middle East Women's Studies: Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes&#160;Adi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi, Guest EditorsIn this special issue of the&#160;Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, entitled “Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes,” guest editors Adi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi fill in the gap in current scholarship where “queer,” “digital” and “Middle East” are seldom considered together. Five full-length articles and a unique Interventions section examine, empirically and theoretically, the conjunctions between sexuality and technology, queerness and the Middle East, and transformative politics and colonial and imperial legacies.INTRODUCTIONAdi Kuntsman and Noor Al-Qasimi, p. 1-5ESSAYSFrom Homoerotics of Exile to Homopolitics of Diaspora: Cyberspace, the War on Terror, and the Hypervisible Iranian Queer,&#160;Sima Shakhsari&#160;, p. 14-40The Egyptian Blogosphere: Policing Gender and Sexuality and the Consequences for Queer Emancipation,&#160;Grant Walsh-Haines, p. 41-62“Coming Out of the Internet”: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a “Digital Closet” in Turkey,&#160;Serkan Gorkemli&#160;, p. 63-88Efféminés, Gigolos, and MSMs in the Cyber-Networks, Coffeehouses, and “Secret Gardens” of Contemporary Tunis,&#160;Rodney Collins, p. 89-112Queer Beirut Online: The Participation of Men in Gayromeo.com,&#160;Mathew Gagné, p. 113-137INTERVENTIONSWaWa Series, Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi, p.138, Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi, p. 138The “Boyah” and the “Baby Lady”: Queer Mediations in Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi’s Wawa Series (2011),&#160;Noor Al-Qasimi, p. 139-142“Israelis and Iranians, Get A Room!”: Love, Hate, and Transnational Politics from the “Israel Loves Iran” and “Iran Loves Israel” Facebook Campaigns, Adi Kuntsman, Sanaz Raji, p. 143-154