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  "en": "Rabih Alameddine interview — The Rumpus (2017)"
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  "ar": "حوار مجلة «ذا رمبس» مع ربيع علم الدين ⁦(4 أكتوبر 2017)⁩، يقول فيه عن نفسه: «أنا ملحد، ملحد متدين».",
  "en": "The Rumpus's conversation with Rabih Alameddine (4 October 2017), in which he says of himself: 'I'm an atheist, a devout atheist.'"
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  "kind": "secondary",
  "title": "Death, Satan, and Cats: A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine",
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    "family": "The Rumpus",
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2017,
     10,
     4
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  "publisher": "The Rumpus",
  "URL": "https://therumpus.net/2017/10/04/the-rumpus-interview-with-rabih-alameddine/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Interview conducted by phone in the winter of 2016-2017 and published on 4 October 2017; read in full on the publisher's own page on 1 November 2026. Asked how religion factors into his life and work, Alameddine answers in his own words: 'I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating,' adding that almost everything he does is opposed to the practice of religion. Independent of the Mississippi Review conversation of 2002; together they are the two sources for his self-identified unbelief.",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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