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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Ameen Fares Rihani papers, 1897-1940</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Rihani, Ameen Fares</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1876-1940</namePart>
    <role>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>1,250</extent>
    <extent>6</extent>
    <extent>2.4</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>Photocopies of correspondence, biographical material, and drafts of essays, historical and political analyses, literary criticism, novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and travel literature reflecting Rihani's Arab-American heritage and the cultures of the Middle East and the West.  Subjects include art, civilization, culture, history, literary styles, literature, love, performing arts, philosophy, politics, religion, theater, travel in the Middle East and the West, and Rihani's business affairs and personal matters.  Also includes reproductions of a photograph and drawing of Rihani.  Correspondents include his former wife, Bertha Case, and Marie-Louise Fontaine, Michael Monahan, Charlotte Teller, and Charmion Von Wiegand.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Photocopies of originals in Ameen Rihani Museum, Freike, Lebanon.</note>
  <note>Arab-American author and poet.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Case, Bertha</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fontaine, Marie-Louise</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monahan, Michael</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Teller, Charlotte</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Von Wiegand, Charmion</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American literature</topic>
    <topic>Arab American authors</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arab Americans</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Art</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civilization, Arab</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civilization, Western</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Criticism</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Culture</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Literature</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Love</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Performing arts</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Philosophy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Political science</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Politics, Practical</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Religion</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Style, Literary</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>America</geographic>
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>America</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Western countries</geographic>
    <topic>Civilization</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Western countries</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Poets</occupation>
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