Professor Bushrui meeting with Prince Charles at his Highgrove estate in 2002
a man of the East who was also very much a man of the West.
Did you face any difficulties in gaining access to the material you needed for your research?
How long did you spend in the research and writing of the biography?
Enormous difficulties. I had to travel to libraries both in the United States and in Lebanon in order to verify my sources.
All of my life. When you were writing the biography of What was the most challenging obstacle you had to overcome during the writing of the Gibran biography? Gibran, did you discover any aspects that surprised you or made you view him in a new light?
It was most challenging to verify the important dates in his life, and then to come to understand the various personal opinions about his life and work.
It really was not a surprise, because I had always believed that Gibran‘s spiritual message was that true and everlasting universal message of creating