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In making sense of her own relationship to a globally beloved text, graphic novelist Zeina Abirached provides opportunities to experience The Prophet<\/em>\u00a0in new ways.<\/h5>\n


\nThe Prophet: A Graphic Novel\u00a0<\/em>by Kahlil Gibran
\nIllustrated by Zeina Abirached
\nInterlink Books<\/a>, 2024
\n<\/span>ISBN 9781623716455<\/p>\n

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Katie Logan<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Zeina Abirached\u2019s masterful rendering of Kahlil Gibran\u2019s <\/span>The Prophet <\/span><\/i>is an exercise in intimacy building. It highlights how, to borrow from The Markaz Review\u2019s March theme, learning to love can be transformative. The Lebanese comics artist, who has resided in France since the mid-2000s, frames her project as both an act of creation and one of readership. In making sense of her own relationship to a globally beloved text with multiple layers of accrued meaning, Abirached provides readers opportunities to experience <\/span>The Prophet <\/span><\/i>in new ways and to reflect on the nature of reading itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Prophet<\/em> illustrated by Zeina Aburached is published by Interlink<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Prophet <\/span><\/i>is no stranger to new editions. Since its 1923 publication, the English-language prose poem has been translated into more than 100 languages, and it has never been out of print. You can find annotated volumes, vintage copies, and even a full text online through <\/span>Project Gutenberg<\/span><\/a>. A <\/span>2015 animated film<\/span><\/a> of the book, produced by the actor Salma Hayek, constructs new context for the characters and assigns selected prose poems to different illustrators. Abirached\u2019s isn\u2019t even the <\/span>only graphic novel interpretation<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gibran is perhaps one of Lebanon\u2019s best-known writers and artists. His most famous text has taken on the weighty responsibility of being \u201cuniversal.\u201d The text\u2019s ability to reach broad audiences was part of even early marketing strategies, as indicated by Gibran\u2019s friend, editor, and advocate <\/span>Mary Elizabeth Haskell: <\/span><\/a>\u201cGenerations will not exhaust it, but instead, generation after generation will find in the book what they would fain be \u2014 and it will be better loved as men grow riper and riper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, <\/span>the noted dance critic and author <\/span>Joan Acocella<\/span><\/a> described the ripple effects of Haskell\u2019s prediction. \u201cThere are public schools named for Gibran in Brooklyn and Yonkers. <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i> has been recited at countless weddings and funerals. It is quoted in books and articles on training art teachers, determining criminal responsibility, and enduring ectopic pregnancy, sleep disorders, and the news that your son is gay. Its words turn up in advertisements for marriage counsellors [sic], chiropractors, learning-disabilities specialists, and face cream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Acocella\u2019s description of the book\u2019s omnipresence feels more tongue in cheek than the 2023 reflections of <\/span>t<\/span>he<\/span> Kahlil Gibran Collective Inc. <\/span><\/a>For the book\u2019s 100th anniversary, the collective credited <\/span>The Prophet\u2019s <\/span><\/i>lasting<\/span> popularity to its seeming relevance for multiple contexts. \u201c<\/span>In a world that seems to be spinning faster every day, the words of Kahlil Gibran’s <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i> continue to resonate across time and cultures, providing solace and guidance to millions of readers,\u201d they write on the website. \u201cAs we mark the 100-year anniversary of this masterpiece, we invite you to explore its profound influence on the global community and consider how Gibran’s wisdom is more pertinent than ever as we navigate a future of rapid growth and unprecedented challenges.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Prophet\u2019s <\/span><\/i>temporal and geographic reach is a monumental accomplishment; as the collective notes, a century of global readership is a feat few texts can boast. And yet universality runs the risk of evacuating any book of its particularities. It\u2019s <\/span>telling that one of the most in-depth biographies of Gibran is entitled <\/span>Beyond Borders<\/span><\/i><\/a>. <\/span><\/i>Rather than crossing borders, the title suggests that Gibran has surpassed the concept of the border altogether. But then what do we make of Gibran\u2019s real, bordered affinities, movements, and life?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet<\/em>, “These Things He Said in Words,” p. 51, illustrated by Zeina Aburached (courtesy Interlink Books<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nAlienated from <\/b>The Prophet<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n

Gibran was born in a Lebanon still part of the Ottoman Empire. <\/span>The Prophet <\/span><\/i>was published just a few years after Mount Lebanon\u2019s catastrophic <\/span>World War I famine<\/span><\/a> and amidst the development of <\/span>Greater Lebanon and the French mandate<\/span><\/a>. He was part of the <\/span>Mahjar Literary Movement,<\/span><\/a> so named precisely because of its members\u2019 migration from Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine to the US. His thinking and work was shaped by an almost 20-year correspondence with <\/span>May Ziade<\/span><\/a>, the famous writer, feminist, and salon host.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well after Gibran\u2019s 1931 death, the decade most linked to <\/span>The Prophet\u2019s <\/span><\/i>popularity \u2014 <\/span>the 1960s<\/span><\/a> \u2014 was the same decade in which Arab Americans felt the need to highlight their whiteness or Christianity in order to protect themselves against rampant anti-Black racism and Islamophobia. (Betty Shamieh documents this era of migration in her debut novel <\/span>Too Soon<\/span><\/i> featured in TMR\u2019s February book club. In it a Palestinian family recently arrived in 1967 Detroit wears visible crosses and brings baklava to their new neighbors; by fostering the assumption that they are from Greece, they move closer to a \u201cWhite\u201d identity and away from association with figures like <\/span>Sirhan Sirhan<\/span><\/a>, the Palestinian-born convicted assassin of US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The histories of Lebanon, of Arab Americans, of Gibran\u2019s specific Maronite community in Bsharri lie in the background of <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i>\u2019s trajectory. Rarely named or unpacked in Western discussions of the text, it is no wonder that the very communities in which Gibran was most rooted experience a disconnect when engaging his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

From her opening pages, Abirached suggests that <\/span>The Prophet\u2019<\/span><\/i>s \u201cuniversality\u201d and ubiquity is part of the reason why she, a Lebanese migrant like Gibran, always felt alienated from the text: \u201cI recognized certain quotes, often recited during marriages or ceremonies, and I must admit, this compulsory proximity it had to me, because of where we came from, often made me feel embarrassed,\u201d she explains. \u201cI should know this prophet, and yet \u2026 something always kept me away from him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For Abirached, it\u2019s perhaps across or through, rather than \u201cbeyond\u201d borders during which she comes to experience Gibran\u2019s work. By contrast with the \u201ccompulsory proximity\u201d of her initial interactions, sitting down and illustrating Gibran\u2019s words has provided a different type of closeness. Abirached is fascinated by the ways art forms work together to create knowledge and relationship. She describes coming to poetry through music and offers her illustrations as a vehicle through which she might approach <\/span>The Prophet. <\/span><\/i>\u201cI want to join Gibran\u2019s work in a dance,\u201d she writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet<\/em>, “For Even as Love Crowned You,” p. 69, illustrated by Zeina Aburached (courtesy Interlink Books<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nCollaborative Pedagogy<\/b><\/h4>\n

Abirached\u2019s preface suggests that her target audience is one at least familiar with <\/span>The Prophet. <\/span><\/i>Gibran\u2019s text introduces Almustafa, who has spent the past 12 years as an outsider in the city of Orphalese. On the day his ship arrives to return him home at last, the city\u2019s residents gather to learn from his wisdom. Each of the collection\u2019s prose poems responds to a theme proposed by one of those residents: \u201cSpeak to us,\u201d they say, \u201cof children, of work, of joy and sorrow, of freedom, of self-knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The people have gathered to learn from Almustafa before he departs. As he shares his insights, though, he emphasizes that what he knows comes from long and careful observation of a community he experiences from a necessary distance, an attention described by the seeress Almitra. “In your aloneness you have watched with our days, and in your wakefulness you have listened to the weeping and the laughter of our sleep,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Almustafa is <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i>\u2019s primary speaker, he emphasizes over and over that the knowledge he shares has been co-created with the people of Orphalese. Teaching, he says, is the act of \u201cleading you to the threshold of your own mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of <\/span>The Prophet\u2019s <\/span><\/i>most distinctive features is its many paradoxes \u2014 the teacher does not share his wisdom but rather helps students find their own. One experiences joy by recognizing sorrow, and love by letting their children go. Freedom emerges when one surrenders the struggle to free oneself. Almustafa\u2019s guidance is less moralizing than it is a call to a reorientation. It pushes the listener toward deepening self-knowledge and a renewed awareness of their connection to a larger community. It\u2019s not <\/span>surprising that the book was <\/span>particularly popular in the 1960s\u2019 countercultural movements<\/span><\/a>. O<\/span>n reading Abirached\u2019s illustrated <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i> I heard unexpected echoes of Paulo Freire\u2019s 1968 <\/span>Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a now seminal treatise that draws from postcolonial theory and Marxist thought to propose a co-creative relationship between teacher and student that results in collective liberation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Abirached heeds Almustafa\u2019s call by taking ownership of her own learning process. Her project is not just to receive <\/span>The Prophet <\/span><\/i>but to sit as a companion or collaborator alongside it. Arts-making as relationship-building is central to Abirached\u2019s work. She is most famous for her graphic novels <\/span>I Remember Beirut<\/span><\/i><\/a> and <\/span>A Game for Swallows<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span><\/i>both of which come to terms with life in the capital city following the Civil War. Abirached explains that <\/span>\u201cI realized that I had to get to know the city after the war,\u201d<\/span><\/a> a motivation that characterizes her work as a new form of knowing. Here, too, she is after a particular kind of knowledge steeped in relation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Prophet<\/em> by Kahlil Gibran, “Verily the Kindness,” p. 329, illustrated by Zeina Aburached (courtesy Interlink Books).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nArtistic Rhythms<\/b><\/h4>\n

One of her most effective strategies is the way in which Abirached pulls the poetry apart, using her illustrations to alter the pace and rhythm of the language. Each page of her edition features only a few captions at most, and each block of text is short. Flooding the language with image and design has the effect of slowing the reader down. Rather than taking in each section as a comprehensive whole, her illustrations force us to take <\/span>The Prophet <\/span><\/i>one phrase, one idea at a time. It\u2019s a valuable way in which Abirached\u2019s artistic practice reinforces sustained attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the volume, illustrated entirely in geometric black-and-white, Abirached\u2019s images echo <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i>\u2019s description of the individual as part of a larger whole. Almustafa\u2019s face, and those of the people of Orphalese, appear as motifs alongside dandelion spores and birds. Abirached situates the speakers within the planet\u2019s abundance, up to and including gorgeous renderings of the cosmos. Other recurring motifs like musical notes and letters from a variety of linguistic traditions speckle the pages, teasing out the rhythmic and repetitive elements of the original. Abirached\u2019s visuals set Almustafa\u2019s words in motion \u2014 they take flight, reverberate, spiral, and settle among the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her rhythm works against a particular urgency threaded through <\/span>The Prophet, <\/span><\/i>at least when we read it in full rather than pulling it apart piecemeal. Almustafa bequeaths his knowledge at the dock while a ride home waits for him. Departure is a reality, and these are his last words (even though he talks about return and a re-echoing). Without page numbers and with a table of contents cleverly embedded in the book\u2019s final pages, Abirached\u2019s edition of the work is not easily excerpted. It exists for us to sit in and sift through, always with the impending sense of Almustafa\u2019s departure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through these strategies, Abirached\u2019s graphic novel is less an illustrated version of <\/span>The Prophet <\/span><\/i>and more a <\/span>translated<\/span><\/i> one, a fitting contribution to the global canon of <\/span>Prophets<\/span><\/i>. Gibran himself was deeply attuned to the translation process, particularly when it came to the book\u2019s translation into Arabic. He wrote the following to his Arabic translator, <\/span>Antony Bashir<\/span><\/a>, in 1925:<\/span><\/p>\n

Your translation of <\/span>The Prophet<\/span><\/i> is an act of kindness towards me that I will gratefully remember as long as I live. My hope is that the readers of the Arabic language will appreciate your literary enthusiasm and afford it its due worth. In my judgment, the translator is a creator, whether people acknowledge this or not. As far as I am concerned, the most deserving of all people to write the introduction is you because he who spends days translating a book from one language to another is certainly the most knowledgeable of all people about the merits and shortcomings of that book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gibran might as well have been writing to Abirached a century later. It is a series of acts of love, to cede your own creation to another thinker, to be the receiver who engages that creation with tenderness and new insights. As Almustafa boards his ship home, Abirached\u2019s rendition of this slim, verbose text gives way to silence. We are confronted not with language but with a true \u201cmoment of rest upon the wind.\u201d In this version of <\/span>The Prophet, <\/span><\/i>Almustafa, the people of Ophalese, and even Gibran are all becoming something new.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The magic of Abirached\u2019s work is the way it lets them go.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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