Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese-American painter and writer born in 1959 in Amman, Jordan, to Lebanese Druze parents.
Raised in Kuwait and Lebanon, he later moved to England and California, earning an engineering degree from UCLA and an MBA in San Francisco.
He transitioned from engineering to writing and painting, debuting with Koolaids in 1998.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, Alameddine has published six novels and a short story collection.
His works explore queer identity, immigration, and war.
His novel The Wrong End of the Telescope won the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
