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Bridging East & West Ameen Rihani Images & Quotations A Glimpse of His Personal Life

Bridging East & West Ameen Rihani’s birthplace Family home in Freike, Lebanon

Bridging East & West side of the house in Freike, Lebanon

Bridging East & West The Rihani Museum in Freike, Lebanon

Bridging East & West Ameen Rihani’s bed

Bridging East & West His desk, typewriter, and a bronze bust

Bridging East & West A young lad who Immigrated to New York in 1888

Bridging East & West Early 1898 Left to right Standing: Ameen, Saada, As’ad, and Joe. Seated: Ferris, Adèle, and Anissa. (Albert was not yet born)

Bridging East & West Quotations from “the philosopher of Freike” “Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructive. It does not die; it only undergoes a change”

Bridging East & West “Give much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others”

Bridging East & West “My American walking shoes are new… and my oriental eyes are old”

Bridging East & West Rihani published essays and articles in numerous journals, including the Asia magazine series in the 1920 s and 30 s.

Bridging East & West “I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes”

Bridging East & West “We are not of the East nor of the West; No boundaries exist in our breast; We are free”

Bridging East & West “Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself” A vineyard in Lebanon

Bridging East & West “The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other”

Bridging East &is West “My wish to live without disliking anyone, To love without being jealous of anyone, To rise without being elevated over anyone, and To advance without stepping on anyone or becoming envious of those above me”

Bridging East & West “For our country is just beginning to speak, and I am her chosen voice. I feel that if I do not respond, if I do not come to her, she will be dumb forever”

“I invite you to travel with me to a land that is magical despite its poverty, to a people that is generous despite its conflicts and disagreements, and to a nation that is free and dignified despite its limitations” Bridging East & West

“Will you come with me to the desert? To the vast silences of the desert, where every voice, every note, every sound has its value and charm” Bridging East & West

Bridging East & West “. . . If Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea – which I think balances the account”

Bridging East & West “In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind”

Bridging East & West “I am one of your adopted children, a beneficiary of democracy, without a grudge or a grievance. I came from the East, from the Holy Land, with a few rusty coppers in my bosom pocket, and my country’s eternal heritage of peace” Ameen with his father, Ferris Rihani

Bridging East & West “Freedom… Carry to the East the dynamism of the West and bring back to the West the Eastern quiescence”

Bridging East & West “I am by nature a man of peace. And this side of my nature asserts itself today only at home. Peace at home first and foremost, where you are mobilizing your forces and building your ships to secure us a lasting and honorable peace in the world” A man of peace

Bridging East & West Tributes to Rihani I will not bid you a happy new year but will bid the new year happiness in having you, and I will not wish you what people wish each other, but I will wish for people some of what you possess, for you are rich in yourself and I am rich in you. Kahlil Gibran

Bridging East & West Tributes to Rihani Ameen Rihani, poet of the sunrise, has brought out his esoteric romance of East and West, The Book of Khalid. Here is a spirit fresh and creative as the breath of Spring… It is long since I have looked into a book so enchanting with its blended charm of two disparate worlds… Michael Monahan The Papyrus Magazine, New York, Dec. 1911

Bridging East & West Tributes to Rihani I don’t think that there is, among the Arab contemporary writers, someone whom the European readers can understand as much as they understand Ameen Rihani…If I want to introduce Rihani… I would say that every civilized person ought to know Ameen Rihani. Ignace Kratchkovsky Moscow, Russia, 1917

Bridging East & West Tributes to Rihani Ameen Rihani was to the Arab Nation what Tagore was to the Indians, and what Emerson and Thoreau were to the United States of America. Zaki Najib Mahmoud Cairo, Egypt, 1980

Bridging East & West Tributes to Rihani Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. “We are not of the East or the West, ” he wrote. “No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free. ” Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General, 2000

Bridging East & West Had it not been for Ameen Rihani, today the richest oil fields in the world (the Arabian Peninsula) would be in British rather than American hands. Leonard Mosley Power Play, New York, 1973

Bridging East & West “Oh my brother, look up, and behold this World Temple which to us shall be a resting place and not a goal. On the borderline of the Orient and the Occident it is built, on the mountain heights, overlooking both” The Book of Khalid