The broken wings

"Broken Wings" is a romantic poetic novel by Lebanese author Khalil Gibran (1912), considered one of the most prominent classics of Arabic literature. It tells the story of a pure and sad love between a young man (the narrator) and Salma Karama in Beirut, facing the restrictions of tradition, religious authority, and the greed of the influential, leading to its tragic end with Salma's death, expressing the conflict of the soul and the body.