found: Poetics of visibility in the contemporary Arab American novel, 2020:ECIP galley (Rabih Alameddine; he was born 1959 in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese Druze parents; is a Lebanese-American painter and writer; he grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon, which he left at age 17 to live first in England and then in California; he earned a degree in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Business in San Francisco; resides in San Francisco and Beirut; author of novels and short story collections)