Ameen al-Rihani: My Story with May
Rumors abounded concerning the romantic relationship between May Ziyadeh and Ameen al-Rihani: How and when did they meet? How did they correspond? How did they exchange their books and opinions? How did this relationship develop through ebb and flow and ups and down? Rumors also abounded concerning May’s tragedy: its causes, circumstances, and conclusion, especially Ameen al-Rihani’s role in all of this. This manuscript, “My Story with May” which was published for the first time in 1980, in Arabic, forty years after the death of al- Rihani and thirty nine years after the death of May, is in fact, simply a “Confession and an Apology” as the philosopher of Freike, al-Rihani, puts it. It is also one of the many phases of a loving and sincere autobiography that is interactive between two giant authors of our time. For the first time ever, this book has been translated into English by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. It is an important addition to al-Rihani scholarship and research.
Rumors abounded concerning the romantic relationship between May Ziyadeh and Ameen al-Rihani: How and when did they meet? How did they correspond? How did they exchange their books and opinions? How did this relationship develop through ebb and flow and ups and down? Rumors also abounded concerning May’s tragedy: its causes, circumstances, and conclusion, especially Ameen al-Rihani’s role in all of this. This manuscript, “My Story with May” which was published for the first time in 1980, in Arabic, forty years after the death of al- Rihani and thirty nine years after the death of May, is in fact, simply a “Confession and an Apology” as the philosopher of Freike, al-Rihani, puts it. It is also one of the many phases of a loving and sincere autobiography that is interactive between two giant authors of our time. For the first time ever, this book has been translated into English by George Nicolas El-Hage, Ph.D. It is an important addition to al-Rihani scholarship and research.
