Ameen Rihani

Band Annie provides biographical information about an early Arab American leader in a blog entry entitled Ameen Rihani.

During the period between 1910 and 1922 Rihani became remarkably involved politically while continuing to pursue a productive literary life. On the literary side, he continued writing and publishing in English and Arabic. Among the books that he published during that period were:

• Zanbakat-ul-Ghawr, a novel in Arabic
• Jihan, a novel in English
• The Luzumiyat, translation of Arabic poetry into English
• The Path of Vision, essays in English
• A Chant of Mystics, poetry in English
• The Descent of Bolchevism, political analysis in English

On the political front, he advocated several causes and worked tirelessly towards these goals:

• The rapprochement between East and West
• The liberation of Lebanon and Syria from the rule of the Ottoman Empire
• The countering of the rising influence of the Zionist lobby that sought to establish a separate state in Palestine.

More information on early Arab efforts to deal with the Zionist lobby (really Judonia) can be found in Second Great Zionist Fraud. Sphere: Related Content