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Mikhail Naimy

Died in 1988

Mikhail Naimy was born in 1889 in Baskinta, at the foot of Mount Sannine. A pupil at the Russian school in Nazareth and then at the seminary in Poltava, in Ukraine, he emigrated in 1911 to the United States, studied law in Seattle, and served in the American army in France in 1918. Co-founder with Gibran of the Pen League in New York, he was its theorist: his critical collection al-Ghirbāl, The Sieve, reformed Arab taste. Biographer of Gibran, a learned hermit of the mountain, he died in 1988, at the age of ninety-nine.

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