Mikha'il Na'ima
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Mikha'il Na'ima Arabic ميخائيل نعيمة (b.1889 in Mount Sannine of Lebanon, d. 1988) was a Lebanese author and poet of the Pen League. He completed his secondary education in the Baskinta school, studied at the Russian Teachers' Institute in Nazareth and the Theological Seminary in Poltava, Russia. He moved to the United States where he received degrees in Law and Liberal Arts at the University of Washington. After graduation he moved to New York, where along with Khalil Gibran and eight other writers he formed a movement for the rebirth of Arabic literature, the Pen League. He was the Vice President and Khalil Gibran was President. In 1932 he returned to Baskinta, Lebanon, where he resided for the rest of his life. He wrote over twenty books, including drama, essays, poetry, criticism, short stories and biography, and died on March 1st, 1988.
Among his best known books is the Book of Mirdad, a mystical text first published in Lebanon in 1948, which was translated into English and published in London in 1962.
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