Pen League

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Pen League was a pioneering early 20th-century Arabic literary society of émigré writers in the Americas that helped shape modern Arabic literature and the Mahjar movement.

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Pen League canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic literary society
Mahjar literary society
literary society
basedOn Syrian–Lebanese émigré community
countryOfOrigin United States of America
dissolved 1930s
ethnicGroupOfMembers Lebanese
Syrian
field Arabic literature
modern Arabic literature
foundedBy Abd al-Masih Haddad
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Mikha'il Na'ima
linked to: Mikhail Naimy

Nasib Arida
genre literary modernism
hasGoal cultural exchange between East and West
promotion of Mahjar writing
renewal of Arabic literature
hasPart New York Pen League
São Paulo Pen League
inception 1916
1920
influenced Arab diaspora literature
Arabic prose
modernist Arabic poetry
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
location New York City
movement Arab literary renaissance
Mahjar movement
notableFor introducing romanticism into Arabic literature
pioneering Mahjar literature
shaping modern Arabic literary style
notableMember Abd al-Masih Haddad
Elia Abu Madi
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Mikha'il Na'ima
linked to: Mikhail Naimy

Najeeb Diab
Nasib Arida
Rashid Ayyub
Rashid Salim al-Khuri
Wadi' Bahout
notableWork Al-Funun magazine (through its members)
Al-Sa'ih magazine (through its members)
religionOfManyMembers Eastern Orthodoxy
Maronite Christianity
timePeriod early 20th century
usedMedium literary magazines
newspapers
public lectures

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Mahjar movement hasOrganization Pen League
Mikhail Naimy memberOf Pen League
Elia Abu Madi memberOf Pen League