Bøger af Ameen Rihani

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The Lily of Al-Ghore (Zanbakat-l Ghawr) is an Arabic Classic novel written by Ameen Rihani first published in 1914.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

Ameen Rihani 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.

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Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911.

When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the shores of the Mediterranean, to experience and document the land in intimate detail.

First published in 1911, Ameen Rihani's Book of Khalid is widely considered the first Arab American novel. The semi-autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the US to find work. In this critical edition, Fine includes the text of the 1911 edition, a glossary, and supplemental essays by leading Rihani scholars.

An English translation of the first collection of modern Arabic poetry. The significance and vogue of these poems lies in the fact that they divert from the traditional Arabic poem and provide scholars with fresh material for study.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This little known traveller's account of the 1920s is at the same time amusing and perceptive. Beginning in Baghdad, travelling across the Gulf to Bahrain, Ameen Rihani enters the Arabia of Ibn Sa'oud, the fast-becoming legend of the region. Weaving a fine tapestry of colorful local information, political intrigue and characters of the time, Rihani's book is an undiscovered classic.