A part of the artwork "al-Qalam," installed in a New York park, in tribute to several Arab American authors. (Credit: Instagram page of Washington Street Historical Society/@wshsnyc)
“If Lebanon were not my country, I would have chosen it to be,” wrote Gibran Khalil Gibran, Lebanon’s most renowned author in the first half of the 20th century.Yet, on a plaque accompanying an artwork in a park in New York, — where he lived and died in 1931 — Gibran is identified as “Syrian.”This confusion sparked anger in Lebanon, amid fears of a return to a “Greater Syria” that would include all or part of the country, following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 and statements along those lines made in 2025 by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack. Read more A Tripoli shop woven from time: Hajj Omran and 7 generations of craft At the origin of the controversy is an artwork: a large monument in a New York park honoring the Pen League authors, a group of writers who settled in Manhattan between the late 19th century and the mid 20th...
“If Lebanon were not my country, I would have chosen it to be,” wrote Gibran Khalil Gibran, Lebanon’s most renowned author in the first half of the 20th century.Yet, on a plaque accompanying an artwork in a park in New York, — where he lived and died in 1931 — Gibran is identified as “Syrian.”This confusion sparked anger in Lebanon, amid fears of a return to a “Greater Syria” that would include all or part of the country, following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 and statements along those lines made in 2025 by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack. Read more A Tripoli shop woven from time: Hajj Omran and 7 generations of craft At the origin of the controversy is an artwork: a large monument in a New York park honoring the Pen League authors, a group of writers who settled in Manhattan between the late 19th...
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