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Rabih Alameddine: “My Existence is Uncomfortable for People”
This interview was conducted at the Bookstan conference in Sarajevo and over email.
John Freeman: Good evening. Rabih always promised to give me a lap dance, but I never thought it would be in Sarajevo.
Audience member: We want to see it!
JF: The night is young.
Rabih Alameddine: We’re just starting.
JF: This is going to get fun. Welcome to tonight’s event. My name is John Freeman, and it gives me an immense amount of joy to present to you Rabih Alameddine tonight. In the Bible, God says to Noah: After the Flood, the fire next time. This is the fire. And you’re going to see why.
Rabih was born in 1959, in Amman, Jordan, and grew up in Lebanon and Kuwait, left, lived in England, was educated in California and moved to San Francisco to study engineering and got a master’s degree in business. Then he became a painter, because that is where the action was at. For a number of years, he produced some beautiful paintings, which are on the covers of several of his books, including one of the two we are launching here tonight—his first book, Koolaids.
Koolaids, I have to say, is one of the most
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An Unnecessary Woman
- By: Rabih Alameddine
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's "unnecessary appendage." Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The 37 books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read by anyone. In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, listeners follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut.
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Tales of a Literary Snob
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