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Biography
Kahlil Gibran: His Life and World, by Jean Gibran and Kahlil Gibran, the authors write: "The date of my birth is unknown”, Kahlil Gibran once said. In an isolated village like his birthplace of Bsharri, Lebanon, births and deaths were as ordinary as the tasks of the seasons, events only imprinted in the memories of men and women who later told their stories without regard for written history. It is only by such tales that we may deduce, with a fair amount of accuracy that the poet was born on January 6, 1883.
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Museum
In 1932, the content of Gibran's studio in New York, including his furniture, his personal belongings, his private library, his manuscripts and 440 original paintings, was transferred to his native town Bsharri. Today, these items form the exhibited collection of the Museum.Originally, a grotto for monks seeking shelter in the 7th century, the Mar Sarkis (Saint Serge) hermitage, became Gibran Kahlil Gibran's tomb, and was later turned into his Museum. By the end of the 17th century, Carmelite monks living in the Qadisha valley, the sacred valley, began construction of a new monastery, which was completed in 1862.
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Gibran National Committee
The Gibran National Committee (GNC) is a non - profit organization formed by the virtue of Decree No. 1618 dated July 10, 1934. The GNC holds the exclusive rights to manage the Lebanese author Khalil Gibran's copyright and his literary and artistic works. Moreover, the GNC manages the “Gibran Museum” that is opened to the public in his native town Bsharri, where are exposed 440 original paintings and drawings of Gibran, his library, personal effects and handwritten manuscripts (...), which are as well exclusively owned.
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Art and poetry
Gibran held his first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Day’s studio.During this exhibition, Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, a respected headmistress ten years his senior. The two formed an important friendship that lasted the rest of Gibran’s life. Though publicly discreet, their correspondence reveals an exalted intimacy. Haskell influenced not only Gibran’s personal life, but also his career test
Political thought
Gibran called for the adoption of Arabic as a national language of Syria and the application of Arabic at all school levels. When Gibran met `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1911-12, who traveled to the United States partly to promote peace, Gibran admired the teachings on peace but argued that "young nations like his own" be freed from Ottoman control. Gibran also wrote the famous "Pity The Nation" poem during these years which was posthumously published in The Garden of the Prophet
Death and legacy
Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931: the cause was determined to be cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis. Before his death, Gibran expressed the wish that he be buried in Lebanon. This wish was fulfilled in 1932, when Mary Haskell and his sister Mariana purchased the Mar Sarkis Monastery in Lebanon, which has since become the Gibran Museum. The words written next to Gibran's grave are "a word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you ....
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When the souls rise in the light of their joy, my soul ascends glorified by the dark of grief.I am like you, Night! And when my morn comes, then my time will end.