Nasib Arida
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Nasib Arida was a Syrian-born poet and writer of the Mahjar movement and a founding member of the New York Pen League.
Arida in 1920
Mahjar
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The Mahjar was a movement related to Romanticism migrant literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to the Americas from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and Palestine at the t
Nasib Arida
…Nasib Arida (Arabic: نسيب عريضة, ALA-LC: Nasīb ʻArīḍah; 1887–1946) was a Syrian-born poet and writer of the Mahjar movement and a founding member of the New York Pen League. Arida was born in Homs to a Syrian Greek Orthodox family where he received his education…
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Four members of the Pen League in 1920. Left to right: Nasib Arida, Kahlil Gibran, Abd al-Masih Haddad, and Mikhail Naimy