Ameen Rihani: Documents

Title

Ameen Rihani: Documents

Subject

Rihani, Ameen Fares, 1876-1940
American literature--Arab American authors

Description

The Ameen Fares Rihani collection contains the personal correspondence, English and Arabic manuscripts, papers, notebooks, articles, press clippings, and other documents of Ameen Fares Rihani (1876-1940), a formative and influential Arab-American author, poet, political activist, and intellectual who dedicated his life to promoting and advocating for Arab culture and history across the world.

This collection contains 168 letters, birth certificates, check and billing statements, travel documents, cards, newsletters, contracts, letters, and other official documents. The documents were created between 1915-1939.

Source

Ameen Rihani Organization

Publisher

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Date

1915-1939

Contributor

Ameen Rihani Organization

Rights

Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

Format

Text/PDF

Language

Arabic
English
Spanish
French

Type

Text

Collection Tree

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Twilight Club 690th Dinner Invite, 1915 February 10

Twilight Club 690th Dinner Invite, held at Hotel McAlpin on February 10, 1915. Ameen F. Rihani was a speaker - and he discussed "The Effect of the War on the Orient"

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Newsletter from the Syria-Mount Lebanon League of Liberation, undated

Newsletter from the Syria-Mount Lebanon League of Liberation for the consideration of the Hon. Secretary of War. It is an appeal to the Secretary of War to have drafted Syrians transferred to the Legion d'Orient (a volunteer army prepared by the…

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Situation of the Syrians in Mexico, undated

Situation of the Syrians in Mexico, an essay by Ameen F. Rihani that recounts the circumstances of Syrian life after World War I. Year suggested by a third party, 1917

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Letter from Newton D. Baker to James Parmelee, 1917 August 18

A letter to James Parmelee from the Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, dated August 18, 1917. The letter addresses Ameen F. Rihani going to see the Secretary of War.

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