Gibran tried out his first English lines on the poet Josephine Peabody. One of those early prose poems survives among her papers at Harvard — awkward, unpolished, and unmistakably his. Edited by Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

When Al-Funoon launched in New York in April 1913, its first pages were given to Kahlil Gibran — a poem and a full-page photograph. It was not an accident, but a statement about who the Mahjar's leading voice was. By Francesco Medici ...

Gibran chose a young Lebanese clergyman to carry all his English books into Arabic. When Antony Bashir's The Prophet appeared in 1926, Gibran told him: only you could have tailored such a beautiful Arabic garment for it. By Francesco Medici ...

In October 1923 Mary Haskell opened her copy of The Prophet and wrote to Gibran that generations would not exhaust it. Tania June Sammons traces the literary partnership that produced the book — and the prophecy that came true. By Tania June Sammons ...

Gibran and Joseph Nahas ate their sandwiches in Battery Park watching a blind man read with his fingers. A few days later they went uptown to see how the pages were made — and Gibran came away wanting the same thing for readers of Arabic. By Joseph Nahas  ·  Edited by Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

On the night of 11 November 1904 the Harcourt Studios in Boston burned to the ground, and Gibran's entire portfolio burned with it. He was twenty-one. A newspaper feature published eight months earlier is now the only record of what was lost. By Francesco Medici ...

The Folio Society has issued The Prophet with Gibran's original drawings reproduced in colour for the first time — one of the first fruits of the book's entry into the public domain. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

Julia Ellsworth Ford collected celebrities, one contemporary said, the way other people collect stamps. Gibran was glad to be collected. Two photographs from her papers at Yale — one of them previously unknown — show him at her house in Rye. By Francesco Medici ...

A meeting called to discuss an orphanage drifted, as meetings do, and someone raised Gibran's excommunication. What he said in reply silenced the room — and then made an archbishop nod along with every sentence. By Joseph Nahas  ·  Edited by Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

In April 1923, three hundred people gathered at the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn to mark twenty-five years of Al-Hoda, the largest Arabic daily in North America. Gibran was among the speakers — and his tribute to its combative founder, Naoum Mokarzel, was remembered as the finest thing said that night. By Francesco Medici ...

Almost everything Gibran wrote has been published. To find something unpublished you have to go to the letters — or, occasionally, to a bookseller's catalogue. In 2004 a four-stanza autograph poem from Barbara Young's collection came up for sale in New York. By Francesco Medici ...

In 2014 the Kahlil Gibran Collective reported the discovery of a rare photograph of Gibran at a Detroit banquet, hidden in the Smithsonian under a misspelling of his name. A large original print has now been acquired for the Collective's archive. By Glen Kalem-Habib ...

The Kahlil Gibran Collective's study of the translations of The Prophet has been taken up in the academic literature: Professor Maya El Hajj of Notre Dame University–Louaize has published a paper on the untranslatable in Gibran, drawing on the Collective's findings. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

Marilyn Monroe kept four copies of The Prophet, gave others away, and read the passage on Marriage aloud on the set of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — then turned to Jane Russell and asked whether it was true. By Glen Kalem-Habib ...

Gibran heard Felix Faris read a poem about exile and the ashes of ancestors, and promised to put it into English. He kept the promise. The manuscript came back to Lebanon and was kept as a relic. By Francesco Medici ...

A century after The Madman — the first book Gibran wrote in English — Belgian translator Philippe Maryssael has rendered it into classical French as Le Fol : Ses Paraboles et Poèmes. By Philippe Maryssael ...

Joseph Nahas was a young assistant at the Arabic newspaper Al-Mohajer on Washington Street when a slight, silent man came in offering to sweep the floors in exchange for publication. This is his first-hand account of meeting Kahlil Gibran. By Joseph Nahas  ·  Edited by Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

A few months before he died, Gibran received two women in his New York studio. One of them spoke no English and called him "maestro." She was Gabriela Mistral, who would win the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen years later — and she filled a twenty-one-page notebook about the evening. By Francesco Medici  ·  Translations from the Spanish by Hilda de Windt-Ayoubi ...

Summer evenings in Battery Park, a band playing, and the mosquitoes descending. Joseph Nahas remembers an argument with Gibran about the Buddha, nirvana, and what a man who hates tyranny should do when he is being bitten. By Joseph Nahas  ·  Edited by Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

The George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace announced a symposium and reception at the University of Maryland for March 2019: Reshaping the Landscapes of Arab Thought — The Legacies of Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani, and Mikhail Naimy. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...