Ninety-six years after Knopf first printed it, Sand and Foam passed into the public domain on 1 January 2022 — a book of aphorisms Gibran had been gathering, in two languages, for most of his writing life. By Glen Kalem-Habib ...

A rubber stamp on the title page of a pocket-sized wartime Prophet carried a name and a Belgian address. Seven years later, the Collective set out to find who he was — and found a nineteen-year-old who had joined the US army to help free his own country. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 26 July 2021 ...

When Twenty Drawings appeared in 1919, Gibran’s readers were baffled and the critics unkind. Francesco Medici argues they were reaching for the wrong instruments: before he was an artist of pen or brush, Gibran was a mystic. By Francesco Medici ...

Richard Mc Sweeney invented a Lebanese poetess and let her answer The Prophet chapter by chapter. Here, at the Collective’s invitation, he sets down the whole of Myriam of Lebanon in a single memoir. By Richard Mc Sweeney  ·  Foreword by Glen Kalem-Habib ...

Unable to travel to Moscow, Francesco Medici sent a letter instead — on Gibran’s love of Russian music, his sympathy for the Russian cause, and a 1931 letter from a Leningrad academician that has sat unread for ninety years. By Glen Kalem-Habib ...

Five and a half centimetres tall, 359 pages, all twelve of Gibran’s illustrations reproduced. A Leipzig press has printed the smallest Prophet ever made. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 28 May 2021 ...

The Lebanese House in Moscow hosts the first Kahlil Gibran conference ever held in Russia, marking ninety years since the poet’s death — four evenings of papers in Arabic, open on Zoom. By Glen Kalem-Habib and Francesco Medici ...

He met Mikhail Naimy. He sat in Knopf’s office to sign the contract for Barbara Young’s book. He has spent a lifetime on Gibran and has just published six hundred pages of it. Henri Zoghaib talks to the Collective. Interview by Glen Kalem-Habib and Francesco Medici ...

Gibran told Mary Haskell about a young widow he had loved in Beirut, who died. He drew her from memory. Biographers named her as the sister of his college friend Ayyub Tabet — except that Ayyub had no sister by that name. By Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

Gibran meant The Prophet to be the first of three. He finished the second; of the third only a few scribbled lines survive. Half a century later an author in Oregon, who had never read Gibran, set out to write it anyway. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 10 April 2021 ...

Gibran died in New York on 10 April 1931. When his body came home to Lebanon, the man who had been his mentor and sometime rival stood at the reception and wrote him a farewell — a poem that stayed unpublished until after Rihani’s own death. By Ameen Rihani  ·  Introduced by Glen Kalem-Habib and Francesco Medici  ·  Translated by Naji B. Oueijan ...

Naimy knew Gibran as few did — fellow member of the Pen Bond, his secretary, his biographer. In his own autobiography he drew a portrait that is far from reverent, and which has troubled readers ever since. By Mikhail Naimy  ·  Introduced and annotated by Francesco Medici ...

Francesco Medici has unearthed a newspaper interview in which Gibran describes, in his own words, how The Prophet came to be written — and corrects the assumption that it arrived by dictation from above. Interview by Gladys Baker  ·  Edited by Francesco Medici and Glen Kalem-Habib ...

In Cairo’s City of the Dead lies one lone Indian grave — a scholar, orator and diplomat who carried Gandhi’s message across America, fought for Indian immigrants’ rights, and moved in the same New York circles as Kahlil Gibran. N. S. Vinodh has written his life. By The Kahlil Gibran Collective ...

A boy of sixteen read Le Prophète in Belgium in 1978 and was disappointed by the French. Forty years later, retired, he made his own — the thirtieth French translation, and the first worked from the fourth printing of 1925. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 20 December 2020 ...

Fifteen compositions for solo oud, one for each of fifteen chapters of The Prophet. Joseph Tawadros — Cairo-born, Sydney-raised — turned Gibran’s poetic prose into an instrumental cycle. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 15 December 2020 ...

Barbara Young published a book of her own poems in 1937, six years after Gibran’s death. She illustrated it with three of his drawings — one signed and dated 1915, two untitled. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 5 November 2020 ...

The text of The Prophet entered the public domain, and a writer in Colorado asked a simple question: what would Almustafa sound like as a woman? Philippe Maryssael on The Prophetess. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 31 October 2020 ...

Another edition of The Prophet — and something more. The son of Virginia Hilu, who published the Gibran–Haskell love letters in 1972, has brought out writings that had never been printed before. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 28 October 2020 ...

In 1932, a year after Gibran’s death, Barbara Young privately printed a short story about Judas Iscariot — who, in her telling, did not hang himself. Gibran drew the frontispiece. Few copies survive. By Philippe Maryssael  ·  Arlon, Belgium, 13 October 2020 ...