Ameen Rihani Quotes


We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.


Citations

Rihani, Ameen. Qawmiyat. Matba'at al-Sader, 1956.

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Ameen Rihani
Ameen Rihani
  • Born: November 24, 1876
  • Died: September 13, 1940
  • Nationality: Lebanese, American
  • Profession: Writer

Ameen Rihani (Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī), 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.