[English-undergrad] "Discomfiting Myths": novelist and essayist Rabih Alameddine, 3-5 PM Wed. May 7 HMNSS 2212 English Conference Room

[James Tobias]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m pleased to announce that novelist and essayist Rabih Alameddine will be visiting campus to read from and discuss his work on Wednesday May 6 2025, from 3 - 5 PM, in the English Department Conference Room HMNSS 2212. 

Rabih’s novels routinely present readers with a tension of pleasure and discomfort, curiosity and challenge, invitation and outrage, insight and concern - and do so more profoundly with every read. 

I hope you’ll accept this invitation to enter into dialogue with Rabih Alameddine. I’ve attached a flyer, and the talk description is below my signature line. We will have light refreshments.

This event is possible with funding from UCR’s Addressing Bias and Bigotry Programming Initative, and we are grateful for the support.

We look forward to seeing you there. Please forward the flyer to those who might be interested.

James Tobias, Ph.D.
Professor
Chair, Department of English
University of California
Riverside CA 92521
jtobias at ucr.edu

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Discomfiting Myths: In Dialogue with Rabih Alameddine
 
3 – 5 PM Wednesday May 7 2025
HMNSS 2212 English Department Conference Room
 
The Department of English welcomes you to a visit with award-winning novelist and essayist Rabih Alameddine, who will be reading from and discussing his work. Alameddine is author of, most recently, Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art (University of Virginia Press, 2024), which Publishers Weekly called "essential reading" in a starred review. He is author of six critically acclaimed novels: 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) as well as a book of short stories, The Perv (Picador, 1999). Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, Alameddine was born in Amman, Jordan, 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.

 


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