Ameen Rihani

Amin al- Rihani ( أمين الريحاني; engl Ameen Rihani also, . * 1876 in Freike, Lebanon, † September 13, 1940 Freike ) was a Lebanese writer.

He was born as the eldest of six children of the Maronite silk manufacturers Al- Rihani and emigrated at the age of twelve years from New York City. He sat where he continued his mostly self-educated and worked in the export trade business of his father. He dealt with early literature.

He traveled several times to his home and in the neighboring states. He was a personal friend of Ibn Saud, the future King of Saudi Arabia. He is regarded as a theorist of Arab nationalism and Arab unity and fought for the secularization of Arab States. He also supported the Palestinian question at the beginning of the 20th century. Al- Rihani was an important representative of Mahjar literary movement developed by Arab emigrants in North America.

Works

• The Holy Land: Whose to Have and to Hold? in: The Bookman, XLVI ( September 1917 ), 8-14
• Palestine Arabs Claim To Be Fighting For National Existence, in: Current History, XXXI ( November 1919 ), 269-279
• Zionism and the Peace of the World, in The Nation CXXIX ( October 2, 1929)
• Is Safe for Palestine Zionism, in: Palestine and Transjordan, I ( November 21, 1936 )
• Palestine and the Arab Proposed Federation, in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, ( November 1932 )