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Literature generally expresses aesthetics and happiness and is the best tool to reduce man's stress and maintains his peace of mind. The languages such as Tamil, Sinhala and English have literary works published in Sri Lanka and they are excellent examples for this. This study portrays that modern Arabic literature, which plays an important role in this manner, expressing taste and distaste and that it has a profound influence on the formation of ethnic cohesion. The Modern Arabic poetry and prose have made very deep impact in strengthening the human relationship from early times to the modern periods. In the contemporary context where contradictions, violence and inter-cultural conflicts are extensive, it is possible to avoid them to some extent through literature. Literature can be included as an important component of various projects to promote the ethnic cohesion, especially among communities living in a pluralistic environment. This study is therefore intended to include such theories and to illustrate the extent to which modern Arabic literature embodies these goals. Furthermore this study is seen as a social descriptive analysis based on secondary data. The study comes to the conclusion that modern Arabic literature has made a significant contribution towards the strengthening of harmony among races and suggests the need for the time being to examine separately how much each part of Arabic literature has contributed to ethnic harmony.