With the attendance of the Head of English Department, Asst. Prof. Dr. Angham Abdulkadhim Alrikabi, the dissertation of the teacher in our department Asst. Lect. Hiba Kamil was discussed, scoring the rank of excellence. 

Any reader of Nietzsche or Gibran Khalil Gibran can sense the pain and suffering in their writings and beliefs. Nietzsche spent all his life expressing his dark views upon the world and human nature, and eventually reaching the conclusion that the true meaning of life can be understood through pain and suffering. Along with this claim, Gibran used to sing his pain through the broken wings of his lost love for Salma Karamy (the heroine of The Broken Wings). This paper shows Nietzsche's interpretation of suffering in this novella. The study is divided into different sections to show the implication of the philosophy of suffering through a literary work. The literature review section is focused around Khalil Gibran and his life and works. The conceptual framework is dedicated to Nietzsche with a particular emphasis on his views of suffering. Next is the analysis or discussion section which shows the implication between the conceptual framework and Gibran's novella The Broken Wings. The study ends with a conclusion that sums up the findings.

Keywords: Nietzsche, suffering, Khalil Gibran, philosophy, the broken wings