The Department of English welcomes back author and professor Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine for a reading from his story collection "Dearborn."
Abou-Zeineddine was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in the Middle East. He is the author of "Dearborn" and co-editor of the creative nonfiction anthology "Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging." "Dearborn" was named a Best Fiction Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, the Chicago Public Library, and Powell’s. His fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, the Arkansas International, Witness, Pleiades, Fiction International, the Common, Epiphany, FOLIO, Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, and the Iron Horse Literary Review, among other publications.
Ghassan lives with his wife and two daughters in Ohio, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.
Please join us in the Community Foundation Theater located in Gund Gallery on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 4:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Asian and Middle East Studies, Department of Religious Studies, and Spiritual and Religious Life.