Written Works

As-Sayeh, 1923

 

Source: Arab American National Museum

 

Fragmentos de El Loco de Kahlil Gibran: La Ciudad Santa (Excerpts from The Madman by Kahlil Gibran: The Blessed City, translated into Spanish), Clarinidas, Santiago de Chile, Year II, No. IV, Sept. 1926, pp. 5-6.

 

Juliet [Thompson] Remembers Gibran: As told to Marzieh Gail, World Order, 12:4, 1978, pp. 29-31.

Letter of Kahlil Gibran to James Oppenheim (circa 1916)

 

Letter to James Oppenheim (1882–1932), author and editor of the short-lived Seven Arts magazine. In full: “This war poem came to the Seven Arts through me. It might interest you to read it. I have been wrestling with an angel and a devil during the past two months. And it is indeed terrible to be between two powers so different. In a week or so I shall leave town for a much needed rest in the country. May I not see you before I go?” 
The Seven Arts was founded with the idealistic goal of transforming American life through the arts, featuring contributors such as Dreiser, Frost, Mencken, and Dos Passos, but folded in 1917 after just one year. In 1916, Gibran was preoccupied with the war in his native Syria, actively soliciting funds and suffering emotional distress at any war news; although he diverted his energy toward writing, the predominant theme from this period was death. In September he left New York to visit his sister on Cape Cod hoping to relieve this building stress, but suffered a nervous breakdown. A remarkable letter from a tumultuous period of Gibran’s life that influenced his writing for years to come.

Majmūʻat al-Rābiṭah al-Qalamiyyah li-Sanat 1921 (The Collection of the Pen Bond for the Year 1921), New York, 1921.

 

Anthology of writings by members of al-Rābiṭah al-Qalamiyyah. Index begins on page 313, contents listed by author begins on page 316. 
Authors: Nasib Arida; Rashid Ayyoub; Wadi Bahout; William Catzeflis; Kahlil Gibran; Abd al-Masih Haddad; Nadra Haddad; Elia Abu Madi; Mikhail Naimy.

 

Source: Arab American National Museum

 

Mirrors of Heritage, Lebanese American University, No. 12 - Spring/Summer 2020.

 

Mirrors of Heritage, Special Issue, 20th Anniversary, The Center for Lebanese Heritage, Lebanese American University (LAU), 2202-2022.