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The
life of Gibran & His Production
Born
in 1883 in Bsharri, Gibran Khalil Gibran
immigrated to Boston with his mother, his two sisters
Mariana and Sultaneh and his half brother Boutros.
In
1898, he returns to Lebanon where he spends
his summer with his father in his native town in Bsharri
and in Winter at the Sagesse College in Beirut where he
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In 1902, Gibran returns to Boston.
Between 1902 and 1904 his sister Sultaneh
(16 years old) dies and his brother Boutros died of
tuberculosis and his mother was carried away by a cancer.
In
1908, he went to Paris where he improved his
artistic techniques and there he meets Rodin.
In 1910, he
left Paris for London where he stayed for a month, before
returning to Boston. |
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In 1911, he leaves for New York where
he will stay until his death on April 10, 1931.
In
1931, Gibran's body reaches Bsharri on
August 22, and was later buried in the hermitage of Mar
Sarkis.
In
1933, the Youth of Bsharri, Mary Haskell and
the Lebanese residing in Boston succeeded in fulfilling
Gibran's will and shipped all his belongings to his
hometown in Bsharri.
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Arabic
1905:
Music
1906: Nymphs of the Valley
1908: Spirits Rebellious
1912: Broken Wings
1914: A Tear and a Smile
1919: Al Mawakeb
1920: The Tempest
1923: Creations and Originalities |
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English
1918:
The Madman
1920: The Forerunner
1923: The Prophet
1926: Sand and Foam
1928: Jesus, the son of God
1931: The Earth Gods
1932: The Wanderer
1933: The Garden of the
Prophet
1919: Publication of a collection
of Twenty Drawings. |
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