“Nizar Qabbani, The Poet and His Poetry.” Middle Eastern Studies 9 (1964): 207–222.Ī study of the life and poetry of Nizar Qabbani.Īl-Haffar Kuzbari, Salma.
It follows two tracks: a literary track focusing on the poetry and biography of the poet, and a historical track focusing on the social developments in the Arab world in the 20th century. The subject of this study is the life achievement of Nizar Qabbani. The works listed here deal with the entirety of his life and poetic influences.ĪlKhalil, Muhamed. Qabbani eulogized him in a famous poem, “To the Legendary Damascene, Prince Tawfiq Qabbani.” The death of Qabbani’s second wife, Balqis al-Rawi, in the 15 December 1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, had severe psychological effects on the poet, and his grief was expressed in his famous poem Balqis, blaming the entire Arab world for her death. In further tragedy, his son, Tawfiq, a medical student in Cairo, died in 1973. The 1967 Six-Day War also influenced his poetry and his lament for the Arab cause. During her funeral, Qabbani decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. While some sources claimed it was suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love, others stated it was a heart attack because the man she loved married another woman. When he was fifteen, his sister died in unclear circumstances. Qabbani channeled his grief and sorrow over death and loss into his poems. Qabbani’s personal life, love of the city of Damascus, and the political conditions of his time were powerful muses in his poetry. Spitted by seas with no shores, Haunted by Demons and ghostsĪnd poetry. my parts are scattered., Above the ocean. How many Damascenes maidens clacked her bracelets to flirt with me … and poetry was the keyįifty years. How shall I explain? Adoration can not be explained? The domestic cat will fall asleep where it pleasesĬoffee grinder is part of our childhood, How shall I forget? the fragrance of cardamom The minarets of Damas cry as they hug me, And for minarets. Heals those who love, but my love can not be cured If you cut my body open, It shall spill grapes and applesĪnd if you open my veins with a blade, You shall hear in my blood the voices of those who left Over the course of a half-century, Qabbani wrote 34 other books of poetry.Ĭoming from Old damascus left a huge nostalgie and love into his memory, his famous Damascene poem is known and loved from all Syrians. He died in London on Apat the age of 75 years spent more than 50 years in love, politics and revolution. especially his political poems during the nineties, such as: When they announce the death of Arabs, And The joggers. From London, Nizar was writing poetry and raising battles and controversy. Her death left a psychological impact on Nizar and he mourned her with a famous poem with her name “Bilqis”.Īfter the death of Bilqis, Nizar left Beirut and moved in Paris and Geneva until he settled in London where he spent the last fifteen years of his life.
In 1982, Bilqis al-Rawi was killed by an explosion in the Iraqi embassy in Beirut. He mourned him in a poem “to the Damascene prince Tawfiq Qabbani”. His son Tawfiq died at the age of 17 with a heart disease and was a great shock to Nazar.
The second of the Iraqi « Bilqis Al-Rawi » and gave birth to Omar and Zainab. Nizar Qabbani married twice, the first of his cousin « Zahra » and gave birth to “Hadba’a and Tawfiq”. By that time, he had established a publishing house in Beirut, which carried his name. He continued to work in the diplomatic sector until he tendered his resignation in 1966. He wrote extensively during these years and his poems from China were some of his finest.
In 1959, when the United Arab Republic was formed, Qabbani was appointed Vice-Secretary of the UAR for its embassies in China. 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.Īfter graduating from law school, Qabbani worked for the Syrian Foreign Ministry, serving as Consul or cultural attaché in several capital cities, including Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, and London. While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. His childhood was characterized by a wonderful love of discovery, disassembling of things, returning them to their parts and chasing shapes. Nizar Qabbani is an Arab poet and diplomat. Today we discover another Syrian poet who lived an extra-ordinary expatriate life: Nizar Qabbani.
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