جبران خليل جبران

Gibran Khalil Gibran (Mahjar)

Lived: 1883–1931 Country: Lebanon / United States Era: Nahda Renaissance Titles indexed: 0

See Khalil Gibran — listed under his Anglicised name.

For a fuller profile see the entry under Khalil Gibran. The Arabic-language reception of Gibran usually places him at the head of the Mahjar movement of Arabic-language writers in the Americas, alongside Mikhail Naimy and Elia Abu Madi.

Recurring themes

the Mahjar circle prose poetry in Arabic the Lebanese diaspora in the Americas

Selected works

  • 1919Al-Mawakib
  • 1923Al-Bada'i' wa-l-Tara'if

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