When I first visited Boston in 1989 to teach at Tufts University, I immediately asked my Palestinian friend who had lived in Boston for years to take me to the Jubran (you call him Kahlil Gibran here in the US) memorial in Boston near the Public Library in Copley Square. I was astonished that Nabil had never heard of it: I had read so much about it in the Lebanese press before coming to the US. I was adamant that I need to find it, and we went on to search and look, but to no avail. We stopped people and cops and no one has heard of it. And then we see a piece of metal, and realized that it was it. Here is the picture that I found last night on Wikipedia.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
A Jubran memorial in Boston
When I first visited Boston in 1989 to teach at Tufts University, I immediately asked my Palestinian friend who had lived in Boston for years to take me to the Jubran (you call him Kahlil Gibran here in the US) memorial in Boston near the Public Library in Copley Square. I was astonished that Nabil had never heard of it: I had read so much about it in the Lebanese press before coming to the US. I was adamant that I need to find it, and we went on to search and look, but to no avail. We stopped people and cops and no one has heard of it. And then we see a piece of metal, and realized that it was it. Here is the picture that I found last night on Wikipedia.
