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Ameen Rihani was a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual and political activist.

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Ameen Rihani

American writer

Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī; Arabic: أمين الريحاني / ALA-LC: Amīn ar-Rīḥānī; November 24, 1876 – September 13, 1940) was a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual and political activist. He was also a major figure in the mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America, and an early theorist of Arab nationalism. He became an American citizen in 1901.

Early days

Ameen Rihani was born on November 24, 1876, in Freike, in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Rihani was one of six children and the oldest son of a Lebanese Maronite raw silk manufacturer, Fares Rihani. In 1888, his father sent his brother and Ameen to New York City; he followed them a year later. Ameen, then eleven years old, was placed in a school where he learned the rudiments of the English language. His father and uncle, having established themselves as merchants in a small cellar in lower Manhattan, soon felt the need for an assistant who could read and write in English. Therefore, the boy was taken away from school to become the c

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Ameen Albert Rihani

Ameen Albert Rihani
Ameen Albert Rihani
Born	Ameen Albert Rihani (1942-07-05) July 5, 1942 (age 82) Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality	Lebanese

Ameen Albert Rihani (born July 5, 1942 in Beirut) is a university professor, scholar and administrator. He is a professor of Arab American literature at Notre Dame University - Louiaze.^[1] He was the Vice President of Academic Affairs since 1997. In 2013 he became advisor to the President of NDU and the Secretary General of the Institute of Lebanese Thought.

Early life and education

Rihani earned a BA degree in political science in 1965 and an MA degree in Arabic literature in 1971, both from the American University of Beirut. Later, he earned his Ph.D. in bilingual comparative literature in 1996 from the Lebanese University. Rihani is the nephew of the well-known author Ameen Rihani.^[2]

Career

Professor Rihani taught literature, philosophy, education, modern Arab thought at the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University. He lectu

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Ameen Rihani

Ameen Fares Rihani, who is regarded as a founder of Arab American literature and a major figure in the Mahjar movement, was born in Freike, Lebanon, then part of the Ottoman Empire, on November 24, 1876. Rihani was one of six children and the eldest son born to a Lebanese Christian (Maronite) silk manufacturer. Rihani moved to New York City with one of his brothers in 1888 and began to learn English. Three years later, Rihani became an American citizen. During his youth, Rihani lost much of his command of Arabic, though his interest in his Arab identity deepened as a result of reading books about Arabic culture written by Western authors. He enrolled at New York Law School in 1897 but returned to Lebanon at age twenty-two after developing a lung infection. He resumed his life in New York in 1899, but departed again for Lebanon in 1905. There, he became active in the effort to liberate the nation from Ottoman rule. Threatened with arrest by the Ottoman government, Rihani fled—first, to Paris, where he met and befriended Kahlil Gibran in 1910, before settling again