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Barbara Young Visits Bisharri “Such an enchanting country. It would be no wonder if it gave rise to many such as Gibran every day.”
Barbara Young arrived in Bisharri at 10 a.m., on Sunday, October 8, 1939. She was accompanied by Director of the National Museum, Emir Maurice Chehab, Director of Arabic Studies at Saint Joseph University, Fouad Efram Al Boustany, and David Azrak, a professor at the American University of Beirut. Prominent figures of the village accompanied by members of the Gibran Committee welcomed “the American friend of Gibran Kahlil Gibran.” “Barbara Young in Bisharri, Gibran’s hometown. The American writer cries in front of the house where the author of The Prophet was born, and kneels in prayer before his tomb for ten minutes” declaimed the headline of As-Siyasa newspaper 3, on the morning of Friday, October 20, 1939. 3 Newspaper published in Beirut by Nayef Succar, a native of Bisharri. Issue no. 37, first year.
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