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Personality to be discussed:

GIBRAN KHALIL GIBRAN

SHERAZ AHMAD 3706 USMAN NAZIR 3733 NABEEL YOUSAF PASHA3675 ALI AMMAD 3575 TAYYAB RASHEED 3726

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MEMORIES:

Khalil Gibran a Lebanese

philosopher , poet, writer and painter, was born on January 6, 1883 in the northern Lebanon.

In June 25, 1895, his mother decided with her brother to immigrate to America, specifically New York with her four childern.

INTRODUCTION:

Education History School of English learning School of Art learning

Diaspora days

After returning to Beruit he was admitted to

“Alhikmah” institute . Due to his keen interest in poetry he was

selected as a college poet over there.

RETURNING TO BERUIT 1898

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Very early, Gibran showed a passion for

drawing; and if there was no paper in the house, he would just go outside and spend hours sketching on fresh snow. At four, he would already dig some holes in the ground and carefully plant tiny scraps of paper, hoping that the summer harvest would provide him with a plentiful supply of paper.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

At six he got fascinated by some old Leonardo

Da Vinci prints given to him by his mother. He was never to forget this definitive moment, and the discovery of this "incredible man" acted for Gibran "like a compass needle for a ship lost in the mists of the sea" awakening in him a yearning to become an artist.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

 He originated from a humble family. His

father, Khalil, worked as a tax collector. His mother Kamileh Rahmeh had one son from a previous marriage (Peter). After Gibran, Kamileh gave birth to two daughters: Mariana and Sultana.

1902: In fifteen months' time, Gibran lost his mother, sister and half-brother.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

Gibran started poetry and published some poems,

title: A Tear and A Smile. A verse from his first poem: “A tear to unite me with those of broken heart;  A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence.” 1923: The Prophet, Gibran's inspiring work, was

published. The book was an immediate success. 1928: Jesus, the Son of Man was published

after 18months of uninterrupted work.

Love for Literature:

Books In English: The Madman (1918) Twenty Drawings (1919) The Forerunner (1920) The Prophet, (1923) Sand and Foam (1926) Kingdom of the Imagination (1927) Jesus, The Son of Man (1928) The Earth Gods (1931)

EXEMPLARY WORK

In Arabic: Nubthah fi Fan Al-Musiqa (Music, 1905) Ara'is al-Muruj (Nymphs of the Valley, also translated

as Spirit Brides and Brides of the Prairie, 1906) Al-Arwah al-Mutamarrida (Rebellious Spirits, 1908) Al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira (Broken Wings, 1912) Dam'a wa Ibtisama (A Tear and A Smile, 1914) Al-Mawakib (The Processions, 1919) Al-'Awāsif (The Tempests, 1920) Al-Bada'i' waal-Tara'if (The New and the Marvellous, 1923)

EXEMPLARY WORK

The Prophet, Gibran’s most famous work,

has sold more copies and been translated into more languages than any of his other writings. Its popularity has been attributed to its simple style, metrical beauty, and words of wisdom. It focuses on human relationships—with others, with nature, and with God.

Gibran's seminal work: The Prophet

These are our favorites:

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. ”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The Prophet

Gibran was by no means a politician. He used to

say : "I am not a politician, nor do I wish to become one" and "Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my

homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen."

POLITICAL THOUGHTS

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own

depth until the hour of separation”

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Writing Style

In memories of Khalil

Gibran

Gibran willed the contents of his studio to Mary

Haskell. There she discovered her letters to him spanning twenty-three years. She initially agreed to burn them because of their intimacy, but recognizing their historical value she saved them. She gave them, along with his letters to her which she had also saved, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library before she died in 1964. Excerpts of the over six hundred letters were published in "Beloved Prophet" in 1972.

CONTRIBUTION

Mary Haskell Minis (she wed Jacob Florance

Minis in 1923) donated her personal collection of nearly one hundred original works of art by Gibran to the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia in 1950. Haskell had been thinking of placing her collection at the Telfair as early as 1914.

CONTRIBUTION

In a letter to Gibran, she wrote "I am thinking

of other museums ... the unique little Telfair Gallery in Savannah, Ga., that Gari Melchers chooses pictures for. There when I was a visiting child, form burst upon my astonished little soul."

CONTRIBUTION

Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931, at

the age of 48. The causes were cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis. The young emigrant from Ottoman Lebanon, who came through Ellis Island in 1895 never became an American citizen; he loved his birthplace too much. Before his death, Gibran expressed the wish that he be buried in Lebanon. This wish was fulfilled in 1932, when Mary Haskell and her sister Mariana purchased the Mar Sarkis Monastery in Lebanon, which has since become the Gibran Museum.

DEATH

Written next to Gibran's grave are the words "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."

DEATH

http://www.gibrankhalilgibran.org/

AboutGebran/Biography/ http://www.wikipedia.com/

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