# Joseph Geha

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{{short description|Author and professor-emeritus at Iowa State University}}
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| name         = Joseph Geha
| birth_date   = 1944
| birth_place  = Zahle, Lebanon
| occupation   = Professor-emeritus at [Iowa State University](/source/Iowa_State_University)
}}

'''Joseph Geha''' (born 1944, Zahle, Lebanon), professor-emeritus at [Iowa State University](/source/Iowa_State_University), is the author of two books, ''Through and Through: Toledo Stories,''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Through and through : Toledo stories|last=Geha|first=Joseph|publisher=Syracuse University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780815650966|edition=Second |location=Syracuse, NY|oclc=878804900}}</ref> one of the first books of modern Arab-American fiction, and ''Lebanese Blonde,''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Lebanese blonde : a novel|last=Geha|first=Joseph|date=2012|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|isbn=9780472118458|location=Ann Arbor|oclc=778074345}}</ref> a novel. He has also published poems, plays, essays  and short fiction in periodicals and anthologies such as ''[Esquire](/source/Esquire_(magazine))'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a2210/esq0207go/|title=Go Figure|last=Geha|first=Joseph|date=Feb 20, 2007|publisher=Esquire|access-date=January 22, 2013}}</ref> ''Growing Up Ethnic in America'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Gillian|first=Maria Maziotti|title=Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American|year=1999|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=0140280634}}</ref> and ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Geha|first=Joseph|title=Remember Who You Are|newspaper=New York Times Sunday Review of Books|date=July 14, 1991}}</ref>

== Education ==
Geha moved to the United States in 1946 with his family, and in 1962 graduated from [St. Francis de Sales High School](/source/St._Francis_de_Sales_High_School_(Toledo%2C_Ohio)) in Toledo, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://utnews.utoledo.edu/index.php/11_09_2012/ut-alum-to-read-passage-from-new-book|title=UT ALUM TO READ PASSAGE FROM NEW BOOK|last=Purdue|first=Brian|date=November 9, 2012|work=UT News|access-date=July 30, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He graduated from the [University of Toledo](/source/University_of_Toledo) in 1966 with a B.A., and 1968 with an M.A. in English. Before coming to Iowa State in 1977, he taught English and Creative Writing at [Missouri State University](/source/Missouri_State_University), [Bowling Green State University](/source/Bowling_Green_State_University) and the [University of Toledo](/source/University_of_Toledo).<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Lane|first=Tahree|title=Toledo native's past shapes novel|url=http://www.toledoblade.com/Books/2012/11/04/Toledo-natives-past-shapes-novel.html|access-date=5 February 2013|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=November 4, 2012}}</ref>

== Awards ==

Geha was awarded a fellowship from the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) in 1988 and a [Pushcart Prize](/source/Pushcart_Prize) in Fiction in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Endowment for the Arts|url=http://arts.gov/content/joseph-geha|access-date=24 December 2013|archive-date=6 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106034304/http://arts.gov/content/joseph-geha|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Polk|first=James|title=In Short: Fiction|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/11/books/in-short-fiction-342590.html|access-date=24 December 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 11, 1990}}</ref>  His work was chosen for inclusion in the Permanent Collection, Arab-American Archive, of the [Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution). He was named an [Arab American Book Award](/source/Arab_American_Book_Award) Winner in 2013 for his novel ''Lebanese Blonde''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lai|first=Daniel|title=Arab American Authors Honored for Literary Contributions|url=http://dearborn.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainment/p/arab-american-authors-honored-for-literary-contributions|access-date=24 December 2013|newspaper=Dearborn Patch|date=July 10, 2013}}</ref>

== Works ==

* ''Through and Through: Toledo Stories'' (1990, Graywolf Press; 2009 second, expanded version, University of Syracuse Press) (short fiction)
* ''Flyway: Arab American Writing'' (2002, Iowa State University) (editor)
* ''Lebanese Blonde'' (2012, University of Michigan Press) (novel)

== References ==

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== Scholarly criticism ==
* Salaita, Steven (2001). "[http://muse.jhu.edu/article/8857 Sand Niggers, Small Shops, and Uncle Sam: Cultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Joseph Geha and Diana Abu-Jaber]" (PDF). ''Criticism''. '''43''' (4). Retrieved July 30, 2016 – via Project MUSE.

==External links==

*{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Michael|title=Lebanese Blonde|url=http://www.toledofreepress.com/tag/joseph-geha/|access-date=24 February 2013|newspaper=Toledo Free Press|date=November 6, 2012}}
*{{cite web|last=Nebbe|first=Charity|title="Lebanese Blonde" by Joseph Geha|url=http://news.iowapublicradio.org/term/joseph-geha|publisher=Iowa Public Radio|access-date=24 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106033002/http://news.iowapublicradio.org/term/joseph-geha|archive-date=6 January 2014}}

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