Mahjar

Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)

Lebanese writer (1889–1988)

Arab-American writer (1876-1940)

The Mahjar (, one of its more literal meanings being "the Arab diaspora") was a movement related to Romanticism migrant literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to the Americas from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and Palestine at the turn of the 20th century and became a movement in the 1910s. Like their predecessors in the Nahda movement (or the "Arab Renaissance"), writers of the Mahjar movement were stimulated by their personal encounter with the Western world and participated in the renewal of Arabic literature, hence their proponents being sometimes referred to

Syrian poet and writer (1887–1946)

journalist in Syria

American academic (1869-1944)