Rabih Alameddine

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Name Rabih Alameddine		Role Painter

Education University of California, Los Angeles, University of San Francisco Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Fiction, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction Books The Hakawati, Koolaids: The Art of War, I - The Divine: A Novel in, The perv, An Unnecessary Woman

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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. The author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Alameddine was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut.