Nizar bin Tawfiq al-Qabbani (March 21, 1923 – April 30, 1998) is a contemporary Syrian poet and diplomat from a prominent Damascene Arab family. His grandfather, Abu Khalil al-Qabbani, is considered one of the pioneers of Arab theater. He studied law at the Syrian University and immediately after graduating in 1945, joined the diplomatic corps, moving between different capitals until he resigned in 1966. He published his first collection of poems in 1944, entitled “Qalat Li al-Samra’a” (The Brunette Told Me). He continued writing and publishing, which reached 35 collections over half a century, most notably “Childhood of a Breast” and “Drawing with Words.” He established a publishing house for his works in Beirut called “Nizar Qabbani Publications.” Damascus and Beirut had a special place in his poetry, perhaps the most prominent of which are “The Damascene Poem” and “O Lady of the World, O Beirut.” The 1967 war, which the Arabs called “the setback”, was a decisive turning point in his poetic and literary experience, as it took him out of his traditional style as a “poet of love and women” to enter the political arena. His poem “Margins on the Notebook of the Setback” stirred up a storm in the Arab world to the point of banning his poems in the media. – The Palestinian poet Izz al-Din al-Manasra said about him: (Nizar, as I knew him in Beirut, is the most polite and kind of poets). On a personal level, Qabbani experienced many tragedies in his life, including the killing of his wife, Balqis, during a suicide bombing that targeted the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, where she worked, and the death of his son Tawfiq, whom he mourned in his poem “The Mythical Prince Tawfiq Qabbani”. He lived the last years of his life residing in London, where he leaned more towards political poetry. One of his most famous last poems is “When Will They Announce the Death of the Arabs?” He passed away on April 30, 1998 and was buried in his hometown, Damascus.
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100 Love Letters
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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Birds do not require an entry visa.
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger.
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Childhood of Nahd
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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Crazy Poems
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger.
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Diary of a Carefree Woman
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger.
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Do you hear the neighing of my sorrows?
Do you hear the neighing of my sorrows, a collection of poetry by the Syrian Arab poet Nizar Qabbani, published in 1991 by Nizar Qabbani Publications in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Drawing with words
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger.
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Every year you are my love
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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Fifty Years in Praise of Women
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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I am one man and you are a tribe of women
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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I love you I love you and the rest will come
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women, and political anger
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I testify that you are not a woman
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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illegal poems
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Illuminations
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women, and political anger
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Love doesn’t stop at a red light
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger.
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Lovers Dictionary
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger.
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My Sweetest Poems
Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani, the poet of love, women and political anger
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Nizar Qabbani Complete Works
A collection of poetry that expresses love, women, and politics, blending romance and social protest in a distinctive poetic style.
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