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Kahlil Gibran

Died in 1931

Kahlil Gibran was born on 6 January 1883 in Bcharré, in the Lebanese mountains. In 1895 his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Boston; he returned in 1898 to study in Beirut. Mary Haskell, whom he met in 1907 and who supported him all his life, enabled him to study painting in Paris. Settled in New York at the beginning of the 1910s, he wrote in Arabic and then in English and never stopped painting. He died in New York on 10 April 1931; he is buried in Bcharré, in the monastery of Mar Sarkis.

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