Some Arab-American writers: Mikhail Naimy, Nassib Aridah, Nudra Haddad, Rashid Ayyub, Elya Abu Madi, Gibran Khalil Gibran.
This society of writers exerted an enormous influence on the Arabic literary renaissance – whether in America, the Arab world, or other countries – and developed a unified approach to Arabic literature and art, introducing an avant-garde spirit into the fossilized institutions.
Fired by Romantic ideals of individual inspiration, pantheism and universal love, they revitalized the literary language by bringing it closer to the colloquial.
The success of this "literary revolution", spearheaded by Gibran, started mostly in New York, far from traditional societies as well as the Ottoman regime who was trying at that time to oppress the writers of Al Mahjar, a name collectively given to the Arab literati in America. This remoteness, coupled with the influence of Western culture, inspired artists with some of the most exceptional prose and poetry, not least from Gibran himself.
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