To celebrate the centennial of Ameen Rihani’s Book
of Khalid, the Department of English, Translation and
Education at Notre Dame University – Lebanon,
invites scholars to the International
Conference on Lebanese-American Literary Figures,
titled “Ameen Rihani’s Arab-American Legacy:
From Romanticism to Postmodernism.”

Rihani’s travelogues, correspondence, poetic,
and prose works, especially The Book of Khalid,
testify to his deep sense of Romanticism
and Modernism. His eagerness to launch a cultural,
political, economic, social, and spiritual revolution,
one which would question Western and Eastern
traditional norms and propose new systems of thought,
is an expression of his universality.

Plenary Speakers include: Roger Allan, Geoffrey Nash, Nijmeh Hajjar and Ameen A. Rihani.