Abstract
Abstract This chapter presents an excerpt from the travelogue Beyond Moscow and Washington published by Mikhail Naimy (1889–1988) in 1957. A graduate of Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IPPO) schools in his native Lebanon and in Nazareth, Naimy was an important Arabic writer and advocate of a third, spiritualist path between the two equally materialist systems of capitalism and communism. Naimy had studied at a seminary in Poltava, Russia (present-day Ukraine), from 1906 to 1911 before moving to the United States. In 1957, on an invitation from the League of Soviet Writers, he revisited Russia for the first time in nearly half a century. In this excerpt Naimy reminisces about his IPPO education, describes the effect on him of Russian literature, and reflects on the cleanliness and development he sees “in the shrine of communism.”
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