He was born on January 6, 1883 in Basharri in the then Ottoman Empire, and died on April 10, 1931 in New York, USA. He was a Lebanese writer, poet, painter and representative of the Syrian-American school in literature. He was one of the most important authors of contemporary poetic prose in Arabic literature.

In 1932, he published the poetic novel The Prophet, which has been translated into over 100 languages. This novel gained immense popularity in the 1960s among hippies.
As a curiosity, it can be added that the British band The Beatles has released a song that almost entirely consists of Khalil Gibran's song "Julia" - a song inspired by Gibran's work entitled "The Prophet"

He spent his childhood in Lebanon. His family was very poor, so the only education he received was from a priest who taught him biblical values, taught him sciences and humanities, as well as the Syriac and Arabic languages.

In 1895 he moved with his family to the United States to Boston, where he changed his name to what is known today.
In 1898 he returned to Beirut himself, where he attended the School of Wisdom run by priests for 4 years. In Lebanon, he developed his knowledge of Arabic literature and language.

In 1903 he returned to Boston. Moments later his family died. At the same time, he published his first works.

In 1907, he met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who was the headmistress of a reputable school for girls in Boston. She often helped the writer materially. Their relationship turned into a lifelong romance over time, even though they did not officially admit it. Their joint correspondence was published.

Additionally, he corresponded for 19 years with Majj Zijada.

In 1908 he went to Paris to study art, but in 1910 he returned to Boston, and two years later he moved to New York, where he took up writing and the visual arts. He was active among the Arab intelligentsia in exile, where he founded the League of Pen People, which brought together writers from the Syrian-American school. This school was closely related to the Romantic trend, it also introduced a new approach to language and new literary forms to Arabic literature. Later, in order to reach a wider audience, he started writing in English.

“The soul of Gibran Khalil Gibran was one of those souls experiencing moments of complete clarity in which the Truth loves to reflect. There was Jubran's glory in this. There was his pain in it. For a soul that has mirrored the Truth, even for a brief moment, will always experience pain whenever it comes to mirroring the untruth. There is a great difference between her pain and that of tarnished souls. An eye that even for a short moment sees the face of Beauty, will always shed bloody tears whenever it notices ugliness. There is a great difference between his tears and the tears of an eye that perceives only earthly beauty! Whoever is not aware of Jubran's sufferings will not be able to know his joys. And whoever does not know his joy, will not know the strength that allowed him to breathe these joys and sufferings into words resounding with music, into colors clear like living thoughts and desires, and in the ropes forming ladders between the animal inhabiting the human heart and God resting in that heart on the throne. By revealing himself to himself, Jubran reveals us to ourselves. By polishing the mirror of his soul, he polishes the mirrors of our souls. In the same Truth in which he finds his glory and we find our glory. " - an excerpt from a biography written by Mikhail Nuayma.

Quotations from the Prophet are eagerly used on various occasions, such as a wedding or the birth of a child, and in February 2012 in Hollywood began preparations for the screening of the Prophet with Salma Hayek in one of the roles.

“I am Lebanese and I am proud of it … I belong to a nation whose beauty I praise .. I am a Christian and I am proud of it. However, I love the Arab prophet and preach the greatness of his name, I honor the greatness of Islam and fear it may fade. I am a Levantine, and although in exile, I remain Levantian by temperament, Syrian by inclination, and by feeling I am Lebanese. I am a man of the East, whose civilization is ancient, who has magical beauty and a wonderful and fragrant taste. Although I admire the present state of Western civilization, the wonderful development and progress it has achieved, the East becomes the home of my dreams, the theater of my desires and sighs … My life finds no better rest than that in the person of Jesus. How beautiful it is to tell a man about God. "
The immensity of Khalil Gibran's talent underlines his position among the authors of world literature - he is considered one of the three best-selling authors in the world after Shakespeare and Lao-Tsym. He is still referred to as one of the greatest representatives of 20th century Arabic literature. Gibran is also a talented painter. August Rodin, whom Gibran met during his stay in Paris on a scholarship (1908–1910) at the local Académie Julien and École des Beaux-Arts, stated that he was "William Blake of the 20th century".

The most important literature

• The Prophet - a poetic novel, the most important work
• Music - a book
• Brides of the meadows - a collection of short stories
• Madman
• Sand and foam
• Jesus. The son of man
• The garden of the prophet
• Broken wings
• Rebels
• A smile and a tear
• Storm

Kahil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Released in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold over nine million copies. The Prophet is a collection of poetic, philosophical, spiritual and, above all, inspiring essays. Gibran's meditations are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering topics as broad as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, rights, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, conversation, time, good and bad, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion and death. “This book has a way of speaking to people at different stages of their lives. It has this magical quality, the more you read it, the better you understand the words. "