![]() ![]() Alienated from her family, Mina longs to accomplish something meaningful. At the Moria refugee camp in Greece, Mina is the closest she’s been to her family in Lebanon since she transitioned. ![]() His funny, beautiful and radical works shake us out of apathy and into empathy, forcing readers to confront stories and characters the world is often content to overlook.Īlameddine’s latest novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, explores an Arab American trans woman’s experience among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. But while Alameddine favours the provocative and unconventional, these elements of his writing are never without purpose. Across six critically-acclaimed novels, the Dos Passos Prize-winner has depicted sex with a nun, put Tom Cruise in dialogue with Eleanor Roosevelt, and personified Death as someone who wears a black beret and savours misery like fine wine. Rabih Alameddine is no stranger to making people uncomfortable. ‘To write about the human condition is political it’s one of the greatest political acts. ![]()
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