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Ameen Rihani

Died in 1940

Ameen Rihani was born in 1876 in Freike, in Mount Lebanon, and at the age of twelve followed his father, who had emigrated to New York. A commercial clerk and then a travelling actor, he returned to his homeland to treat his lungs and went back and forth between the two shores all his life. The first to write the prose poem in Arabic and the first Arab-American novelist writing in English, he crossed deserts, met Ibn Saud and defended the Arab cause. He died in Freike in 1940.

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