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Nizar Qabbani
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نزار قباني | | Born | March 21, 1923
Damascus, Syria | Died | April 30, 1998 (aged 75)
London, England | Occupation | diplomat, poet, writer, publisher | Nationality | Syrian | nizarq.com |
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (Arabic: نزار توفيق قباني‎, Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī) (21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher . His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world. Contents [hide] * 1 Biography * 1.1 Early life * 1.2 Diplomatic career * 2 Poetic influences * 3 Personal life * 3.1 Family * 3.2 Marriages * 4 Late life and death * 5 Bibliography * 5.1 Poetry * 5.2 Other works * 5.3 Other languages * 6 References * 7 External links |
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[edit]Biography
[edit]Early life

Qabbani as a youth.
Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family.[1] Qabbani was raised in Mi 'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus. Qabbani studied at the national Scientific College School in Damascus between 1930 and 1941.[2] The school was owned and run by his father 's friend, Ahmad Munif al-Aidi. He later studied law at the Damascus University, which was called Syrian University until 1958. He graduated with a bachelor 's degree in law in 1945.[2]
While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman 's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus.[2] To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend

References: Qabbani as a law student in Damascus, 1944. Over the course of a half-century, Qabbani wrote 34 other books of poetry, including: * Childhood of a Breast (1948) طفولة نهد * Samba (1949) سامبا * You Are Mine (1950) أنت لي * Poems (1956) قصائد * My Beloved (1961) حبيبتي * Drawing with Words (1966) الرسم بالكلمات * Diary of an Indifferent Woman (1968) يوميات امرأة لا مبالية * Savage Poems (1970) قصائد متوحشة * Book of Love (1970) كتاب الحب * 100 Love Letters (1970) مئة رسالة حب * Poems Against The Law (1972) أشعار خارجة على القانون * I Love You, and the Rest is to Come (1978) أحبك أحبك و البقية تأتي * To Beirut the Feminine, With My Love (1978) إلى بيروت الأنثى مع حبي * May You Be My Love For Another Year (1978) كل عام وأنت حبيبتي * I Testify That There Is No Woman But you (1979) أشهد أن لا امرأة إلا أنت * Secret Diaries of Baheyya the Egyptian (1979) اليوميات السرية لبهية المصرية * I Write the History of Woman Like So (1981) هكذا أكتب تاريخ النساء * The Lover 's Dictionary (1981) قاموس العاشقين * A Poem For Balqis (1982) قصيدة بلقيس * Love Does Not Stop at Red Lights (1985) الحب لا يقف على الضوء الأحمر * Insane Poems (1985)أشعار مجنونة * Poems Inciting Anger (1986) قصائد مغضوب عليها * Love Shall Remain My Lord (1987) سيبقى الحب سيدي * The Trilogy of the Children of the Stones (1988) ثلاثية أطفال الحجارة * Secret Papers of a Karmathian Lover (1988) الأوراق السرية لعاشق قرمطي * Biography of an Arab Executioner (1988) السيرة الذاتية لسياف عربي * I Married You, Liberty! (1988) تزوجتك أيتها الحرية * A Match in My Hand , And Your Petty Paper Nations (1989) الكبريت في يدي ودويلاتكم من ورق * No Victor Other Than Love (1989) لا غالب إلا الحب * Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness? (1991) هل تسمعين صهيل أحزاني ؟ * Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat (1991) هوامش على دفتر النكسة * I 'm One Man and You are a Tribe of Women (1992) أنا رجل واحد وأنت قبيلة من النساء * Fifty Years of Praising Women (1994) خمسون عاما في مديح النساء * Nizarian Variations of Arabic Maqam of Love (1995) تنويعات نزارية على مقام العشق * Alphabet of Jasmine (1998) أبجدية الياسمين