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Gibran

Kahlil . 1883--1931, Syro-Lebanese poet, mystic, and painter, resident in the US after 1910; author of The Prophet (1923)
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Qasim Askar Gibran, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of the Southern Movement in Aden, told Arab-language Aljazeera television network that his movement will not attend the reconciliation talks which has been initiated by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) and wants freedom, independence, separation of Southern Yemen and its autonomy.
These are poems, in Gibran's words, of "immeasurable beauty"--making art out of pain.
The juxtaposition of Gibran's original text and contemporary sights and sounds is intended to help audiences find new meaning in the poet's fusion of Eastern and Western philosophies.
The event began with a theatric act which embodied Gibran's personality and the most important three women in his lifetime.
Sawalha's Gibran (played with charm and a sense of innocence by Fanos Xenofs) is a man simmering with frustration; a frustrated painter (his artistic aspirations stymied by his provocative sister), a frustrated writer who complains of being paraded in public like a circus act, and - from the distance of his home in one of Boston's poorest immigrant enclaves - a romantic and frustrated fighter for freedom for Lebanon from the oppressive Ottoman regime.
The Lebanese-born Gibran is the third most-read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu, and has been translated in to more than 40 languages.
The killing and torture of children certainly means the end of the regime, which has become more psychopathic; it moved from Rafik to Gibran, Samir and Pierre and the Lebanese martyrs, to all martyrs for freedom in Syria, and the children of this brave people.
Lebanese Energy Minister Gibran Bassil and his Iranian counterpart Majid Namjou signed a number of agreements on Friday furthering cooperation in the sectors of energy, water and oil.
It was different with Gibran, for Gibran was born almost black.
Mohammed Nawaz, 48, and his sons Imran, 25, Adnan, 24, Gibran, 23 and Ferkhan, 21, all of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering.
Bethlehem / PNN -- Life will never be the same for young Tema Gibran, a Palestinian child suffering from diabetes.