DUBAI: Valentine’s Day 2023 seems like a timely opportunity to look back on the life of one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, the Lebanese-American poet and painter Gibran Khalil Gibran, who was famous the world over for his touching poetry about love as well as his seminal work, “The Prophet.” This year marks the 140th anniversary of his birth, as well as the publication
Julie Hakim Azzam says that Ekua Holmes s art in Hope Is an Arrow, a picture-book biography of Kahlil Gibran, brings history to life with bold colors and shapes. She also finds the book problematic in terms of cultural accuracy and discusses how that might have happened.