Mahjar

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A literary movement started by Arabic-speaking writers who had emigrated to America from Ottoman-ruled Lebanon, Syria and Palestine at the turn of the 20th century.

Origin

  • From Arabic الْمَهْجَر.

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