Gibran's

Joan Acocella wrote a piece a few years back in The New Yorker about the continuing popularity of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.

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Rather than the bronze or marble sculpture of a hunched naked man leaning his chin on a clenched fist, Gibran's Thinker is a somber painting of a clothed bearded man gazing into space in front of a crystal ball, albeit leaning on his clenched fist.

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Gibran's search for depth and beauty translated into a series of canvases featuring nudity, love of nature, and, love and sin, during his temporal period from 1908 to 1914.

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Rather than the bronze or marble sculpture of a hunched naked man leaning his chin on a clenched fist, Gibran's Thinker is a somber painting of a clothed bearded man gazing into space in front of a crystal ball, albeit leaning on his clenched fist.

Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010

The spirituality one feels in Bsharri, Gibran's village, perched majestically near the indomitable cedars of biblical fame, transports a visitor to a time when life may have seemed simpler, but whose issues have also burdened the generations, and continue to plague the Lebanese.

Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010

Gibran's search for depth and beauty translated into a series of canvases featuring nudity, love of nature, and, love and sin, during his temporal period from 1908 to 1914.

Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010

Walking through the museum and listening to piped choral voices or a lone instrumentalist on an Arabic nay recorder, one can follow Gibran's bursts of tormented creativity in Arabic and English in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.

Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010

Gibran's search for depth and beauty translated into a series of canvases featuring nudity, love of nature, and, love and sin, during his temporal period from 1908 to 1914.

Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010

Rather than the bronze or marble sculpture of a hunched naked man leaning his chin on a clenched fist, Gibran's Thinker is a somber painting of a clothed bearded man gazing into space in front of a crystal ball, albeit leaning on his clenched fist.

Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010