The novels Yalo and The Angel of History are by Elias Khoury and Rabih Alameddine, two authors who grew up in this city.
A character who grew up in this city is suspected of collaborating on a bombing plot, and is forced into a bag with a cat and made to sit on a Coke bottle after Shirin, a woman he is stalking, complains to the police. An author who shifts his time between San Francisco and this other city won the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards for Gay Fiction with a novel in which a conversation about Joan Didion causes the gay poet Jacob to have a mental breakdown. The novels Yalo and The Angel of History are by Elias Khoury and Rabih Alameddine, two authors who grew up in this city. Selma Karamy falls in love with a fictional version of the author in Broken Wings, a novel set in this capital city. A native of Bsharri studied in this city before writing "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you" in "Sand and Foam". For 10 points, name this capital city, which was once home for Kahlil Gibran.
A character who grew up in this city is suspected of collaborating on a bombing plot, and is forced into a bag with a cat and made to sit on a Coke bottle after Shirin, a woman he is stalking, complains to the police.
Beirut