Floyd Starr ran a home for troubled boys in Michigan. He wanted to thank Kahlil Gibran for The Prophet, and was told the poet was the most unreachable man in New York. Then, one afternoon on a street-car, he heard a voice. By Francesco Medici ...

Kahlil Gibran wanted to be buried at Mar Sarkis, the ruined hermitage above the Kadisha Valley. Three documents in Italian, unread by scholars until now, show how the Carmelite friars who owned it came to sell — and what they thought they were selling. By Francesco Medici and Charles Malouf Samaha ...

On 1 January 2019, after ninety-five years and 188 consecutive print runs — the longest unbroken run in publishing history — Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet entered the public domain. By Glen Kalem-Habib ...

The Kahlil Gibran Collective attended the Melbourne opening of Kahlil Gibran: The Garden of the Prophet — fifty original paintings and drawings, and some of Gibran's own New York studio furniture, on loan from the Gibran Museum in Lebanon. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

On a snowy Tuesday in February 1920, the war poet Siegfried Sassoon sat for Kahlil Gibran in New York and wrote a few lines about it in his journal that evening. Francesco Medici uses them to put a name to a portrait that had sat unidentified in Beirut for a century. By Francesco Medici ...

Museums Victoria announced in October 2018 that its Immigration Museum would present the first Australian exhibition of Kahlil Gibran's artworks and manuscripts — more than fifty pieces, on loan from the Gibran Museum in Bsharri, never before seen in this country. Kahlil Gibran Collective  ·  Museums Victoria press release, 26 October 2018 ...

Writing for Arab America in October 2018, its president Warren David remembered a conversation with the journalist Jamal Khashoggi — one that turned, unexpectedly, to Kahlil Gibran and his effect on the literary awakening of the Arab world. Kahlil Gibran Collective  ·  after Warren David, Arab America ...

Arabs know him as Jubran Khalil Jubran; the rest of the world knows him as Kahlil Gibran. Between those two names lie a schoolteacher’s shortcut, three passages through Ellis Island and a string of clerks who each heard the name differently. Francesco Medici follows the paper trail. By Francesco Medici ...

What does it mean to grow up in a Lebanese-American household where Kahlil Gibran is not just a poet but a family connection? In this personal essay, poet Philip Metres — a distant cousin of Gibran through the Boulos family of Brooklyn — traces the complicated legacy of the third most widely read poet in history. By Philip Metres  ·  Republished by the Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

Four more first-edition translations of The Prophet join the list — Cebuano, Basque, Berber and Norwegian Bokmål — bringing the verified total to 108. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

A 105th first-edition translation of The Prophet joins the list: Cebuano, spoken by some twenty-one million people across the central and southern Philippines. The find came shortly after Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib completed the first global study of the book's first-edition translations. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

In August 2018, as London hosted both the premiere of a new Gibran musical and an exhibition of Middle Eastern art inspired by his writings, journalist Nick Leech asked a question as relevant today as it was then: why do the words of a Lebanese poet who died in 1931 continue to speak so powerfully to the world? By Nick Leech, The National  ·  Republished by the Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

In the summer of 2018, London became an unlikely but fitting stage for one of the most significant cultural celebrations of Kahlil Gibran in recent memory — a West End musical premiere and a major art exhibition at Sotheby's, both opening within days of each other. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

In July 2016, China Social Science Publishing House published the first Chinese translation of Kahlil Gibran: His Life and World — the landmark biography by Jean Gibran and Kahlil G. Gibran. The translator was Dr. Zheng Ma, the leading researcher of Gibran in Chinese scholarship. Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

Asked to verify how many times The Prophet had been translated, Glen Kalem-Habib and Francesco Medici went looking. The accepted figure was forty to sixty. What they found, language by language and library by library, was more than a hundred — enough to place Gibran's book among the ten most translated works in history, and the only book of prose poetry on that list. By Glen Kalem-Habib  ·  Research with Francesco Medici ...

The Kahlil Gibran Collective is available for speaking engagements worldwide. Whether for a university lecture, a cultural festival, a literary event, or a private gathering, our scholars bring Gibran's life, art, and legacy vividly to life for audiences of all backgrounds. Kahlil Gibran Collective  ·  Speaking Engagements ...

On 20 February 2018, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia held a special event at UN-House, Beirut, to mark the World Day of Social Justice — exploring how the themes of equality, injustice, and collective responsibility run through the life and work of Kahlil Gibran. Francesco Medici presented the keynote intervention. By Francesco Medici ...

Contrary to popular belief, Kahlil Gibran did not lead an ascetic life. Scholar Francesco Medici traces Gibran's eating habits, favourite restaurants, and the foods that sustained — and occasionally eluded — one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. By Francesco Medici ...

In her own words, Hilda de Windt-Ayoubi — poet, painter, and translator from Curaçao — tells the story of how she came to translate Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet into Papiamento: a journey that began with a stranger's letter and ended with the world's first Creole-language edition of Gibran's masterpiece. By Hilda de Windt-Ayoubi ...

Between 1943 and 1947 the United States printed 123 million pocket-sized paperbacks and gave them free to servicemen and women at war. Among the 1,322 titles chosen — westerns, mysteries, Steinbeck, Twain, Woolf — was one book by an Arab-American: Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. By Glen Kalem-Habib ...