Rabih Alameddine is an American painter and writer.
10 Facts About Rabih Alameddine
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Rabih Alameddine grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California.
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Rabih Alameddine earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Master of Business in San Francisco.
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Rabih Alameddine began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting.
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The author of six novels and a collection of short stories, Rabih Alameddine was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.
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Rabih Alameddine has lived in San Francisco and Beirut and currently teaches at the University of Virginia's creative writing program.
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In 2014, Rabih Alameddine was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and he won the California Book Awards Gold Medal Fiction for An Unnecessary Woman.
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Rabih Alameddine is best known for this novel, which tells the story of Aaliya, a Lebanese woman and translator living in war-torn Lebanon.
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In 2017, Rabih Alameddine won the Arab American Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for The Angel of History.
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Rabih Alameddine was shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Short Story Award for his story, "The July War".