Mikhail naimy religion in schools

Abstract

In more than one respect, Mikhail Naimy is a unique Arab writer: through his education in Russian schools in the Lebanon and Palestine and later in Tzarist Russia, he became so familiar with Russian language and literature that he came to write poetry in that language.

Later on he emigrated to the United States where he graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Arts and another in Law. Naimy lived in the United States for over twenty years.

Naimy was born into a Greek Orthodox family and completed his elementary education at the Baskinta school.

Mikhail Naimy found himself engaging with matters of faith, spirituality and religion brought upon from his Orthodox Christian upbringing in Lebanon.

Mikhail Naimy is a man of innate religious feeling: born as Orthodox Christian in in the Lebanon, his wide interest in Buddhism, Hinduism.

Mikhail Naimy is a man of innate religious feeling: born as Orthodox Christian in in the Lebanon, his wide mterest in Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Muslim.

He, however, chose to explore this famous biblical narrative from a less dogmatic view and also to endow it with a more spiritual meaning that is not assigned.

There he became very familiar with Anglo-Saxon literature. His poems in English were published in several American periodicals and newspapers including The New York Times. Mikhail Naimy is a man of innate religious feeling: born as Orthodox Christian in 1889 in the Lebanon, his wide interest in Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Muslim Sufis widened his outlook on matters concerning religion that he almost came to preach a "faith" of his own, whi