Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

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Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon. Lebanon was a Turkish province part of Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) and subjugated to Ottoman dominion, which granted the Mount Lebanon area autonomous rule. The people of Mount Lebanon had struggled for several years to gain independence from the Ottoman rule, a cause Gibran was later to adopt and become an active member in. The Mount Lebano.. Continue..

Some of Khalil Gibran Poems

A Lover's Call XXVII

A Poet's Death is His Life IV

A Poet's Voice XV

Beauty XXV

Before the Throne of Beauty XXVI

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	A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

- Khalil Gibran

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