<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 4pt 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Extrabold", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">Discomfiting Myths: In Dialogue with Rabih Alameddine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 4pt 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 5pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 4pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; font-weight: normal;">3 – 5 PM Wednesday May 7 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 4pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; font-weight: normal;">HMNSS 2212 English Department Conference Room<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 4pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 5pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -1pt; font-weight: normal;">The Department of English </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: rgb(0, 36, 81); letter-spacing: -1pt; font-weight: normal;">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, </span><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -1pt; font-weight: normal;">Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; color: black; letter-spacing: -1pt; font-weight: normal;"> (University of Virginia Press, 2024), which Publishers Weekly called "essential reading" in a starred review. He is author of six critically acclaimed novels: <i>The Wrong End of the Telescope</i> (Grove Atlantic, 2021), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award; <i>The Angel of History</i> (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016); <i>An Unnecessary Woman</i> (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; <i>The Hakawati</i> (Knopf, 2008); <i>I, The Divine</i> (W.W. Norton, 2001); and <i>Koolaids</i> (Picador, 1998) as well as a book of short stories, <i>The Perv</i> (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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 4pt 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(88, 172, 179); font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "YuMincho +36p Kana Medium", serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1pt; text-align: justify;"><br> </span></p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></span><br>
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