Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran: A Seminar - LIR 629
The course studies
the English works of the Lebanese-American
writers Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran.
Emphasis will be on “The Book of Khalid”
and “The Prophet” and their enormous
influence on building bridges between the
East and the West. Those and other works
like Rihani’s essays and Gibran’s prophetic
narratives, which have become so well-known and studied in the curricula of world
universities, will be studied as advancing
East-West cross-cultural integration.