Kahlil Gibran came of age in Boston at the height of the American Pictorialist photography movement — and the encounter shaped his art in ways that are rarely discussed. This essay by scholar Eva María Ayala Canseco traces the profound influence of Fred Holland Day, the Boston philanthropist and photography pioneer who first opened the young Gibran's eyes to light. By Eva María Ayala Canseco · Republished by the Kahlil Gibran Collective · 3 April 2014 The following essay was written by Eva María Ayala Canseco and originally published at gibrankgibran.org. We republish it here with acknowledgemen...
Kahlil Gibran came of age in Boston at the height of the American Pictorialist photography movement — and the encounter shaped his art in ways that are rarely discussed. This essay by scholar Eva María Ayala Canseco traces the profound influence of Fred Holland Day, the Boston philanthropist and photography pioneer who first opened the young Gibran's eyes to light. By Eva María Ayala Canseco · Republished by the Kahlil Gibran Collective · 3 April 2014 The following essay was written by Eva María Ayala Canseco and originally published at gibrankgibran.org. We republish it here with acknowledgemen...
On 21 May 2014, while the world's attention was turned toward Cannes and the anticipated premiere of the animated The Prophet, a quieter but no less remarkable event was unfolding on a small Caribbean island: the launch of E Profeta — the first ever translation of Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece into Papiamento, a Creole language spoken by fewer than a million people. Glen Kalem-Habib was there. By Glen Kalem-Habib · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 24 May 2014
In May 2014, Glen Kalem-Habib was invited by the Lebanese American University in Beirut to present a lecture drawn from sixteen years of field research into the global readership of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet — a body of work as surprising as it is vast. By Glen Kalem-Habib · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 22 May 2014 Glen Kalem-Habib presenting at the Lebanese American University, Beirut...
In May 2014, we reported that the long-awaited animated adaptation of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet — produced by Salma Hayek and directed by Roger Allers — would preview at the Cannes Film Festival. We revisit that announcement here, with the full story of what followed. Kahlil Gibran Collective · Originally published 9 May 2014 Salma Hayek and the crew of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet at Ca...
In May 2014, the George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace published The Essential Rihani — a landmark anthology edited by Suheil Bushrui and May Rihani, gathering the most important works of Ameen Rihani, the Lebanese-American writer who was one of Kahlil Gibran's closest intellectual companions and most lasting influences. Kahlil Gibran Collective · 30 April 2014 The Essential Rihani
In January 2014, Irish philosopher and poet Richard McSweeney published Bradawn Yeats — A Kahlil Gibran Tribute to W.B. Yeats: a remarkable work of lyrical philosophy that brings together two of the twentieth century's most spiritually luminous voices across the divide of time, culture, and language. Kahlil Gibran Collective · 28 April 2014 Richard McSweeney — Irish philosopher and poet, author of Bradawn Yeats. The affinitie...
In February 2014, the George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland announced the recipient of the 2014 Kahlil Gibran International Award: Tania June Sammons, Senior Curator at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia — one of the foremost custodians of Gibran's visual art in the world. By Glen Kalem-Habib · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 3 February 2014 Tania June Sammons — recipi...
In November 2013, Glen Kalem-Habib travelled from Sydney to Beijing to attend Peking University's annual Middle Eastern Literature conference — marking the first visit to China by any Western Gibran scholar. This is his account of Gibran's deep and enduring presence in Chinese literary culture. By Glen Kalem-Habib · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 22 April 2014 Glen Kalem-Habib (right) in attendanc...
In April 2014, Italian Gibran scholar Francesco Medici made a remarkable archival discovery: a rare photograph of Kahlil Gibran, long hidden in a private collection at the Smithsonian Institution — overlooked for decades due to a misspelling of Gibran's name on the catalogue record. By Glen Kalem-Habib · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 22 April 2014
In April 2014, the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland announced an ambitious international research project: the world's first comprehensive multilingual bibliography of works published by and about Kahlil Gibran. We republish the original announcement here as a record of a landmark moment in Gibran scholarship — and in memory of the man who made it possible. Kahlil Gibran Collective · Originally published 3 April 2014
In the spring of 2014, writer and academic Emily Jane O'Dell made the journey to Bsharri, Lebanon — to the monastery where Kahlil Gibran is buried and the museum that holds over a hundred of his original paintings. Her account, first published on HuffPost, offers a vivid and personal portrait of what it means to make a pilgrimage to Gibran in the land he never forgot. Republished with acknowledgement to Emily Jane O'Dell · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 2014
In 2014, kahlilgibran.com went live as the world's first independently run website dedicated to the life, art, and legacy of Kahlil Gibran. What began as a single page and a handful of articles has grown into a global reference and community for Gibran scholars, researchers, and readers alike. By Glen Kalem-Habib · Kahlil Gibran Collective · 2014 "A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible." — Kahlil Gibran...
