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纽约为纪念纪伯伦和“小叙利亚”建碑，为何引发全球轩然大波？NYC built a monument to Khalil Gibran and Little Syria. Why was there global uproar?

10/21 ·1055 字

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1916年，曼哈顿的“小叙利亚”地区有男孩们售卖清凉饮料。照片由华盛顿街历史协会提供。Boys sell cool drinks in Little Syria, Manhattan, in 1916. Photograph: Courtesy of the Washington Street Historical Society

黎巴嫩官员勃然大怒，指责该市抹去了纪伯伦的身份。然而曾有一段时间，美国的阿拉伯移民认为“我们都是叙利亚人”。

4月30日上午，在金融区摩天大楼的阴影下，一块金色布帷滑落，露出一座高7英尺（约2米）、由喷漆不锈钢制成的亮黄色雕塑，拼出一个阿拉伯词：“”，意为“笔”。

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’ On the morning of 30 April, in the shadow of the financial district’s skyscrapers, a gold cloth slid off a bright yellow sculpture of painted stainless steel, 7ft (2 metres) tall, that spells an Arabic word: “”, the pen.

莎拉·乌哈杜（Sara Ouhaddou）创作的《Al Qalam: Poets in the Park》雕塑在曼哈顿下城的伊丽莎白·H·伯杰广场（Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza）揭幕。照片由纽约市文化事务部门提供。The unveiling of Al Qalam: Poets in the Park by Sara Ouhaddou in Elizabeth H Berger Plaza, lower Manhattan. Photograph: Courtesy of the NYC department of cultural affairs

四位成员组成“Pen League”的成员正在合影。照片由华盛顿街历史协会提供。Four men in the Pen League pose for a portrait. Photograph: Courtesy of the Washington Street Historical Society

1898年，曼哈顿华盛顿街上的一栋叙利亚风格公寓。照片由华盛顿街历史协会提供。A Syrian tenement on Washington Street in Manhattan in 1898. Photograph: Courtesy of the Washington Street Historical Society

这座名为“Al Qalam：公园里的诗人”的纪念碑矗立在伊丽莎白·H·伯格广场，旨在纪念纽约人曾称为“小叙利亚”的已消失街区的作家们：这是一个阿拉伯语移民社区，沿华盛顿街分布，距离后来世界贸易中心拔地而起的地方仅几个街区。该纪念碑是扎赫兰·马姆达尼就任市长后揭幕的首件纪念性艺术品。“小叙利亚”孕育了曾在纽约生活过的最著名诗人之一：纪伯伦·纪伯伦，《先知》的作者，这本诗意散文集从未绝版。纪念碑旨在纪念纪伯伦在20世纪初于“小叙利亚”领导的“笔社”作家圈子。

The monument, Al Qalam: Poets in the Park, stands in Elizabeth H Berger Plaza and honors the writers of the vanished neighborhood that New Yorkers once called Little Syria: an Arabic-speaking immigrant community that ran along Washington Street, blocks from where the World Trade Center would later rise. The monument was the first commemorative artwork unveiled under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Little Syria produced one of the most famous poets ever to live in New York: Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, a book of poetic prose that has never gone out of print. The monument honors the Pen League, the circle of writers Gibran led in Little Syria in the early 20th century.

1892年出版的《Kawkab America》——美国第一份阿拉伯语报纸。照片由elmore提供，由华盛顿街历史协会提供。An edition of Kawkab America, the first Arabic-language newspaper in the US, from 1892. Photograph: elmore/Courtesy of the Washington Street Historical Society

1936年，曼哈顿华盛顿街上的一家黎巴嫩餐厅。照片由华盛顿街历史协会提供。A Lebanese restaurant on Washington Street, Manhattan, 1936. Photograph: Courtesy of the Washington Street Historical Society

一张未注明日期的曼哈顿“小叙利亚”地区的照片。照片由华盛顿街历史协会提供。An undated photo of Little Syria in Manhattan. Photograph: Courtesy of the Washington Street Historical Society

这座雕塑已完全揭幕，其完整形态如下。照片由纽约市文化事务部门提供。The fully unveiled monument. Photograph: Courtesy of the NYC department of cultural affairs

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