- Rabih Alameddine (1959-, Lebanon/ USA) – Koolaids: The Art of War (1998). This English-language novel is set in San Francisco and Beirut in the 1980s and 1990s. Disruption in the two cities (the former was the main site of the aids epidemic and the later that of the Lebanese Civil War (see 1975 – 1988 Lebanese Civil War)), is narrated by three protagonists who are accompanied by a plurality of voices (reference). The protagonists include Mohammed, a homosexual Lebanese painter living in the United States (also in W: Outside the Arab world: America: United States of America).
Refrences:
- Joseph Donica. 2019. “‘Addressing a virus, a war, or oneself’: Everyday Life in Rabih Alameddine’s ‘Koolaids: The Art of War’.” College Literature 46(2) 424-452, p. 424