The Book of Khalid
Author: Ameen Rihani
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 3732680789
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Ibn Sa'Oud Of Arabia
Author: Ameen Rihani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1136187456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2005. This little known traveller's account of the 1920's 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 colourful local information, political intrigue and characters of the time, Rihani's book is an undiscovered classic.
Myrtle and Myrrh [poems]
Author: Ameen Fares Rihani
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781016353441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Heart of Lebanon
Author: Ameen Rihani
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2021-08-12
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0815655142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Through his travelogue The Heart of Lebanon, Rihani brings his readers along by foot and by mule to explore rural villages like his childhood home of Freike, the flora and fauna of massive cedar forests, and archaeological sites that reveal the history of Lebanon. Meeting goatherds, healers, monks, and more along the way, Rihani offers more than vivid descriptions of the country’s sweeping scenery. His candid and often humorous narration captures what he sees as the soul of Lebanon and its people. Allen’s fluid translation transports English-language readers to an early twentieth-century rural Lebanon of the writer’s time in a way that only Rihani’s firsthand account can accomplish.
Ameen Rihani
Author: Nathan C. Funk
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780761828600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the summer of 1888, Ameen Fares Rihani (1876-1940) left the shores of his native Lebanon to begin a new life in the bustling metropolis of New York City. Few could have guessed at the time that the young Rihani would soon become one of the most famous and distinctive Arab writers of the era, transforming tales from his crossings between East and West into a clarion call for understanding and cooperation between a rising world power and an Arab world that was suspended between cultural renaissance and political recolonization. Less than a year after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the Ameen Rihani Institute and the American University Center for Global Peace convened a distinguished group of Arab, American, and European scholars for an international symposium in Washington, D.C. Inspired by the conviction that Rihani's humane vision still addresses many of the most vitally important issues in global affairs, the participants in this symposium prepared stimulating writings on every facet of Rihani's intellectual journey, literary career, political advocacy, and life as a protagonist of Arab-American understanding. The result is this remarkable book demonstrating the extraordinary nature of Ameen Rihani's work as a cultural ambassador; the depth of his affinities for such writers as Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, and Tolstoy; and the enduring relevance of his commitments to tolerance, universalism, reconciliation, and peace.
The Politics and Poetics of Ameen Rihani
Author: Nijmeh Hajjar
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2010-05-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781848852662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating illustration of an Arab-America encounter contributes to post- and neo-colonial discourse and provides a balancing counterpoint to the predominant ideological `clash of civilisations' paradigms. The Politics and Poetics of Ameen Rihani furthers our understanding of the Arab-Islamic world and its relationship with the West - which remains one of the most important issues of our times. --Book Jacket.
Race Characters
Author: Swati Rana
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1469659484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.
The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala
Author: Abu al-Ala al-Maarri
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 5040639562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Path of Vision; pocket essays of East and West
Author: Ameen Rihani
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-20
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was written by a man well-placed to observe the differences between the East and the West culturally, philosophically and in business. Born in Lebanon to a silk merchant, his family migrated to America in the late 1880s when Ameen was in his twenties. His observations of the two cultures are fascinating; for example, he describes the Western trait of inquisitiveness as acceptable in the West but not in the East, where he writes, "the Oriental would prefer a man to pick his purse than to pick his heart or mind." He goes on to add that possibly the trait of inquisitiveness is why Western culture advances more quickly than that of the East.
Contemporary Arab-American Literature
Author: Carol Fadda-Conrey
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014-05-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1479826928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present, Carol Fadda-Conrey takes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab-American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab homelands, whether actual or imagined, play a crucial role in shaping cultural articulations of US citizenship and belonging. By asserting themselves within a US framework while maintaining connections to their homelands, Arab-Americans contest the blanket representations of themselves as dictated by the US nation-state. Deploying a multidisciplinary framework at the intersection of Middle-Eastern studies, US ethnic studies, and diaspora studies, Fadda-Conrey argues for a transnational discourse that overturns the often rigid affiliations embedded in ethnic labels. Tracing the shifts in transnational perspectives, from the founders of Arab-American literature, like Gibran Kahlil Gibran and Ameen Rihani, to modern writers such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Joseph Geha, Randa Jarrar, and Suheir Hammad, Fadda-Conrey finds that contemporary Arab-American writers depict strong yet complex attachments to the US landscape. She explores how the idea of home is negotiated between immigrant parents and subsequent generations, alongside analyses of texts that work toward fostering more nuanced understandings of Arab and Muslim identities in the wake of post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiments.
