Joseph Geha (born 1944, Zahle, Lebanon), professor-emeritus at Iowa State University, is the author of two books, Through and Through: Toledo Stories,[1] one of the first books of modern Arab-American fiction, and Lebanese Blonde,[2] a novel. He has also published poems, plays, essays and short fiction in periodicals and anthologies such as Esquire,[3] Growing Up Ethnic in America,[4] and The New York Times.[5]