Youssef Howayek

Youssef Saadallah Howayek (Arabic: يوسف حويك; also Yusuf Huwayyik, Hoyek, Hoayek, Hawayek) (1883–1962) was a painter, sculptor and writer from Helta, in modern-day Lebanon.

Focusing on the cultural shock observed by a young Lebanese mountain dweller in contact with a major European city like Rome.

Gibran and Howayek had known each other from Lebanon, and became closer friends in Paris being from the same part of the world and the same age.

He writes in his memoirs that his favourite book was "Histoire des origines du Christianisme", by Ernest Renan.

Yusuf Huwayyik : Gibran in Paris (1976 Popular Library, NY) He painted the "Our Lady of Seven Sorrows" and "Christ in the Garden of Olives" and donated them to the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris.