Review of Melville House Edition by Philip Metres in The Plain Dealer

Philip Metres, a poet and English professor at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, has today published a beautiful review of Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid in The Plain Dealer newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio. The review mentions that Metres's great-uncle had told his uncle that "[y]ou really ...

Please Like ADC’s “Kahlil Gibran Appreciation Initiative” on Facebook! (Renée Moorad)

For several decades now, members of the Arab-American community -- led by Robert Andrews of California -- have been petitioning the United States Postal Service, in vain, to add a stamp of Kahlil Gibran, the talented Lebanese poet who lived and worked in the United States for most of his ...

First Italian Translation of The Book of Khalid (Interview with Francesco Medici)

For a long out-of-print book that has largely been seen as obscure, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid has some tremendous admirers who have devoted a great deal of time and energy toward studying it and making it available. From the beginnings of Project Khalid, I have been in touch ...

Dr. Huda Totonji To Teach Arabic Calligraphy Course at the Harvard Extension School

The Arab cultural focus on writing and "the word" is one of the reasons we argue that literature is one of the most important areas for cultural exchange and education. Through the Project Khalid work and mutual friend Nancy Yacoub, I was fortunate to meet Dr. Huda Tontoji, an extremely ...

Lebanese Documentary “Meet Me Halfway” To Be Screened at George Washington University (Tuesday, June 12, 7pm)

I am a great admirer of Lebanon and its history, and my reading of Ameen Rihani, and his New York colleagues, makes me acutely aware of its great perceived potential alongside its pitfalls of sectarianism, vulnerability to cultural imperialism, and economic inequality. The Nawaya Network is a Lebanese non-profit organisation ...