The Pen League (Arabic:Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE) was the first Arabic-language literary society in North America and they had been working closely since 1911.
The Pen League (Arabic:   / ALA-LC: al-rabitah al-qalamiyah) was the first Arabic-language literary society in North America, formed initially by Nasib Arida and Abd al-Masih Haddad in 1915 or 1916, and subsequently re-formed in 1920 by a larger group of Mahjari writers in New York led by Kahlil Gibran. Arabic (, al-arabiyyah, [al arabija (listen) or , arabiy, [arabi (listen) or [arabij) is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. They had been working closely since 1911. 
