Definition of writer Gibran Khalil Gibran

Diaspora writers

Diaspora poetry, or what is called the Diaspora School, is an intellectual and literary current. It appeared in the North and South Americas at the hands of the Arab poets who migrated to it, and who were called the Diaspora Poets. They wrote and composed poetry in it, and they were brought together by the Pen Association through which many magazines were published, the most famous of which is Al Samir Magazine. Among the most famous writers of the diaspora are Elia Abu Madi, Abd al-Masih Haddad, Gibran Khalil Gibran and others, and in this article the focus will be on Gibran Khalil Gibran in particular.

Khalil Gibran

He is the Lebanese writer, writer, painter, and poet Gibran Khalil Gibran. He was born on January 1883, XNUMX in the town of Bsharri, in the north of Lebanon. He learned Arabic, poetry, the Bible, and reading from the hands of the priest who was in his village at the time, due to the poverty of his family and his inability to Going to school to receive various sciences in it, and he later immigrated with his mother to the United States of America, and there he studied arts and embarked on his literary career.

Accompanied by a number of other authors and writers outside their homelands, such as Michael Naima, Nassib Arida, and others, Gibran established what was known as the Pen Association, in the context of striving to bring about renewal in Arabic literature and bring it out of the circle of its stagnation, in addition to concerted and unifying efforts for writers in exile to advance the Arabic language and literature. Gibran died on the tenth of April 1931 due to tuberculosis at the age of forty-eight years.

His literary style and works

Gibran Khalil Gibran is considered one of the most important writers and poets of the Diaspora, and he had great experience in the fields of poetry, writing, philosophy, spirituality, painting, in addition to sculpture and plastic art. He was multi-talented and sensitive, and he was also part of the issues of the era in which he lived, and he appeared in His poems and writings are a love of enjoying the purity of life, and he was against the politicization of religion, whether Islamic or Christian. 1923, in addition to many other books and publications in both Arabic and English, including the following.

His writings are in Arabic

• Storms novel.
• broken wings.
• A tear and a smile.
• rebellious souls.

His writings are in English

• landlords.
• Sand and scum.
• Prophet's Garden.
• Jesus is the son of man.
• the crazy.

His famous sayings

Gibran Khalil Gibran has many influential and profound sayings that indicate the depth of his thought and his broad culture, including:

• You can't laugh and be tough at the same time.
• Truth needs two men: a man who speaks it and a man who understands it.
• Doubt is a pain so lonely that it does not know that certainty is its twin.
• You are blind, and I am deaf and dumb, so put your hand in mine and we will catch each other.