Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine (Arabic: ربيع علم الدين) (born 1959) is a Lebanese-American painter and writer. He was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze parents (Alameddine himself is an atheist). He grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California. A lover of mathematics, he earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Business in San Francisco. He began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. He is the author of three novels—Koolaids, I, the Divine and The Hakawati—as well as The Perv, a collection of short stories, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Hakawati (The Storyteller in Arabic) is the result of eight years of intensive work, has received critical acclaim and has been translated into ten languages. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut.

Bibliography

• Koolaids: The Art of War (April 1998)
• The Perv: Stories (June 1999)
• I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (October 2001)
• The preface of Homophobia: Views and Positions (May 2006)
• The Hakawati (April 2008)

External links

• Official website
• Rabih Alameddine on Red Room