An Evening with Author Rabih Alameddine
A Reading and Q+A with Introductions from Jonathan Alexander & Ghada Mourad
Friday, November 8, 2024 | 5:00PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
Rabih Alameddine’s most recent book is Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art (University of Virginia Press, 2024), which Publishers Weekly called “essential reading” in a starred review. He is also the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic, 2021), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Angel of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016); An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press, 2014), finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, winner of the California Book Award, and a Washington Post, Kirkus, and NPR Best Book of 2014; The Hakawati (Knopf, 2008); I, The Divine (W.W. Norton, 2001); and Koolaids (Picador, 1998). He is also the author of a book of short stories, The Perv (Picador, 1999). Alameddine received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.
Born in Amman, Jordan, Alameddine grew up in Lebanon and Kuwait, lived in England, then moved to the US. He earned a degree in engineering from UCLA and an MBA in San Francisco before becoming a painter and novelist. He divides his time between Beirut and San Francisco.
This event is presented by and thanks to UCI Illuminations.
Additional support comes from Humanities Core Program, the International Center for Writing and Translations, and the Departments of English, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Comparative Literature.