Mahjar

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English

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Etymology

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From Arabic الْمَهْجَر (al-mahjar).

Proper noun

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Mahjar (uncountable)

  1. (literature) 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.
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