ʻArīḍah, Nasīb
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Name (Latin)
ʻArīḍah, Nasīb
Name (Arabic)
عريضة، نسيب، 1887-1946
Other forms of name
Arida, Nasib
ʻUrayḍah, Nasīb
Nasīb ʻArīḍah
Date of birth
1887
Date of death
1946
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Nassib Arida, in reproduced article from The Syrian World, vol. 2, Feb. 1929, page 52, in blog section, Who were they, and what did they call themselves? ( (Khalilgibran.com blog, Who gets to name the dead? - Gibran, the Mahjar, and the monument in Manhattan, 17 May 2026, viewed July 21, 2026) )
- Wikipedia, June 8, 2026(Nasib Arida; born Homs, Ottoman Syria, 1887; died New York City, 1946, aged 58-59; writer and poet of the Mahjar movement; born in Homs, Ottoman Syria to a Greek Orthodox family; immigrated to the United States in 1905; worked in retail and wrote for Al-Hoda and Meraat-ul-Gharb; married Najeeba Haddad, sister of fellow Homs-born writers Abd al-Masih Haddad and Nadra Haddad; in 1913 Arida founded Al-Funoon, the first attempt at a literary and artistic magazine by the Arab immigrant community in New York; in 1915 or 1916 he and Abd al-Masih Haddad co-founded the Pen League in New York, an Arabic-language literary society, which as joined by Kahlil Gibran, Micha'il Na'ima and other Mahjari poets in 1920; his collection of poetry, Perplexed Spirits (al-Arwāḥ al-ḥāʼirah), was published in 1946, the year of his death)
- al-Funūn, 1913-18.
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1887; d. 1946)