Gibran died in 1931, following a long illness and his remains were taken back home to his beloved Lebanese mountain to be
He urged us to grasp the "fundamental unity" of faith.
Remembering Renée Moorad, Remembering Kahlil Gibran: Historical Continuity and Arab-American Activism
Today, young Arab-American activists, like Renée, advocate that American ideals of civil liberties, of ethnic and racial equality, and of respect for immigrants also apply to Arab-Americans and to Arabs living in the United States.
Since it was published in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet has been loved by generations of readers. A new film, starring Liam Neeson and Salma Hayek, brings to life eight of Gibran's poems, each one illustrated by a different animator.
"Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet" has a unique message for children, the actress tells HuffPost Live.
“I think America has a very severe problem with discrimination that we try to overlook."
You tell 'em, Salma.
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness
Perhaps the novel has maintained its hold on our imaginations because it's fundamentally about empathy or the loss thereof--a phenomenon that allows for what Clausewitz termed "the continuation of politics by other means," a state we know only too well, as war.
When author, poet, and painter Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote about his Lebanon at the age of thirty-seven, he had been in exile for twelve years. The country he knew was probably long gone, though of coure, he would never find that out; he only returned to his native village, Becharre, to be buried there in 1931.