He is the third-most-widely read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-tzu. He was a New Yorker and an Arab American. His writing has influenced song lyrics, novels and speeches, and inspired ...

Nestled in the mountains of northern Lebanon, a museum dedicated to Kahlil Gibran in his hometown of Bsharre has been celebrating the centennial of "The Prophet", the renowned author's most famous ...

Lebanese American poet Khalil Gibran is perhaps best known as the author of "The Prophet," a collection of poetic essays that sold more than 10 million copies since its publication a century ago, in ...

“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.” So sayeth the seer and moral center of Kahlil Gibran’s book “The Prophet” (1923), still a worldwide best-seller nearly a century after his death. Lesser known ...