Lebanon Should Pay Proper Tribute to Gibran Khalil Gibran
If you are living somewhere in Canada, you must have probably been to Rue Khalil Gibran in the Ville Saint-Laurent of Montréal (Quebec Province). And if it happens that you’re living in the US or have been to Washington DC, we assume that you have possibly got to admire Khalil Gibran Memorial Garden or contemplated his Statue in Los Angeles.
Via Siddharth Lohchab2
The list here can truly be endless of all these places around the world honoring Gibran for his unique influence. Either it’s that big hospital in Venezuela carrying his paintings and quotes, or his International Academy in Brooklyn and his famous paintings at “Le Petit Palais” Paris, the world’s greatest cities have been long competing on who can pay more tribute to Gibran.
Via DC Memorialist
As for Lebanon, Gibran Khalil Gibran's homeland, it has done very little to honor him and his memory as he deserves. Aside from a couple of streets in Hamra and Horsh Tabet (Beirut) and a small one of less than 1 Km in Baladiyeh (Tripoli), we see no indication of our pride in that native of our country whose work still influences millions around the world.
Via Lebanese Studies University of Raleigh
Among the numerous foreign places that are honoring our Gibran Khalil Gibran:
Gibran Khalil Gibran Monument - Sydney, Australia
Statue of Gibran in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Gibran Khalil Statue, Yerevan, Armenia
Gibran Khalil Gibran collectin, Soumaya Museum, Mexico.
Kahlil Gibran Street, Montreal, Canada inaugurated on 27 Sept. 2008 on occasion of the 125th anniversary of his birth.
Gibran Khalil Gebran Monument, University of Raleigh, North Carolina (US)
Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden in Washington, D.C.,
Pavilion K. Gibran at École Pasteur in Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Gibran Memorial in Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Khalil Gibran International Academy, a public high school in Brooklyn, NY
Khalil Gibran Park (Parcul Khalil Gibran) in Bucharest, Romania
Gibran Kalil Gibran sculpture on a marble pedestal indoors at Arab Memorial building, Brazil
Gibran Khalil Gibran Memorial, Buenos Aires.
Via Gibran National Committee
It was but in August 2014 that a cultural center and public garden was inaugurated in his name in downtown Beirut. That's to the credit of the people of his hometown Bsharri and the Gibran National Committee organization.
Whilst all the efforts put in repaying back some of Gibran’s eternal contribution to Lebanon are still framed within individual and humble initiatives, the world’s largest cities are naming sites after his name.
Via InsideSchools / Khalil Gibran International Academy, Brooklyn
On a similar note, did you know that the famous Verdun Street in Beirut was named after the Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France? Or have you ever wondered why there is no school in Lebanon dedicated to Gibran or a university's hall in our country with a memorial of any kind to Gibran?
He who was born on the 6 th of January 1883 in the northern mountain of Bsharri close to the sacred valley of Wadi Qadisha marked his birth with the conception of an artistic and philosophical renaissance.