In this talk, Alameddine will share some of his work as a globally celebrated, award-winning novelist and discuss creative practice as a Lebanese-American gay author and artist in the time of Trump. Alameddine is the author of the novels Koolaids (1998), I, the Divine (2001), The Hakawati (2008), An Unnecessary Woman (2014), and The Angel of History (2016), as well as the story collection, The Perv (1999). He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.  The Queer Studies Lecture Series is made possible thanks to the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Queer Studies Minor, SSU Instructionally Related Activities Program, Campus Life, and the HUB.