Gibran Khalil Gibran: The Rebellious Soul

When Gibran Khalil Gibran was 12 years old, he boarded a ship from Lebanon to the United States with his mother and three siblings. Within a few years only two of them would be alive. Shaped by loss and a distrust of religious and political powers, Gibran's insatiable rebellious soul would go on to create his seminal work, The Prophet. But it didn’t come without sacrifice.  “...the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness…”Support the show: https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/hindsight/