I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

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• Rabih Alameddine:

  I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

• Rabih Alameddine:

  In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or En

• Rabih Alameddine:

  There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that?

• Rabih Alameddine:

  In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion,

• Rabih Alameddine:

  I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, m

• Rabih Alameddine:

  A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered n

• Rabih Alameddine:

  'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who make

• Rabih Alameddine:

  We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we

• Rabih Alameddine:

  I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it for

• Rabih Alameddine:

  If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amaz