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NYC built a monument to Khalil Gibran and Little Syria. Why was there global uproar?

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Lebanese officials were furious, claiming the city erased Gibran’s identity. Yet there was a time when Arab immigrants in the US thought ‘we were all Syrians’ This is Muslim New York: artists…

The Guardian United Kingdom · 21 October 2026

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