"I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic."
— Rabih Alameddine

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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On the unpredictability of how a written work will be received in “Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'” in The Guardian (2015 Jan 9)