Fowles Literary Series kicks off on Monday, Feb. 22

Rabih Alameddine

One of the biggest events of the Chapman year is always the John Fowles Literary Series, which for the past two decades, under the leadership of Mark Axelrod, Ph.D. of the Department of English and the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing,  has been bringing us many of the finest authors in the world — live and for free!  If you’ve never been to a Fowles Series event, now is the time to start.  The evenings are friendly, fun and fascinating — and did we mention free?  (And there are usually wine, cheese and munchies involved, too …)  It all amounts to a very enjoyable, civilized, intellectual night out – and a cheap yet impressive date, if you are so inclined.  In the past the Fowles Series has brought to campus such world-famous authors as Sir Salman Rushdie, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Luisa Valenzuela, Alice Partnoy, Raymond Federman, Ralph Bernstein and David Antin.  This year’s series focuses on authors of Jewish and Arab heritage.

Monday’s author, Rabih Alameddine, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room, second floor of the Leatherby Libraries.  He was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese parents, and grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon. He was educated in England and America, and has an engineering degree from UCLA and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He is also the author of the novels Koolaids and I, the Divine, the story collection The Perv, and, most recently, The Hakawati. His pieces have appeared in Zoetrope, The Los Angeles Times, The Evening Standard and Al-Hayat, among others. Mr. Alameddine, a painter as well as an author, has had solo gallery exhibitions in cities throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. He has lectured at numerous universities including M.I.T and The American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Mr. Alameddine received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 2002. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.

See more on the whole 2010 Fowles Series HERE: https://www.chapman.edu/fowles/2010participants.asp

Dawn Bonker

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