One of his first pieces of poetry was entitled The Jasmine Scent of Damascus, and his last book of poetry, Abjadiat el Yasmeen (The Jasmine Alphabet) was likewise dedicated to it. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” He is known as one of the most feminist and progressive intellectuals of his time…….(and)……”His second marriage was to an Iraqi woman named Balqis al-Rawi, a schoolteacher whom he met at a poetry recital in Baghdad she was killed in a bomb attack by guerrillas on the in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war on 15 December 1981.”īTW Wiki has external links to more of his poetry, and below this video are the YT words in English and those spoken in Arabic in the video of this particular poem. Nizar Qabbani studied the secondary phase in Damascus, and received a baccalaureate degree from the National Scientific College School, and received in 1945 a BA in Law from the Syrian University, and then worked in the diplomatic corps until he resigned in 1996, was served as an extension at the Embassy of Syria in Cairo, when it did not. As well, the renowned Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani also wrote odes to the flower.
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I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. When asked whether he was a revolutionary, the poet answered: “Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. He liked arts, particularly drawing and music in his childhood, but later on he focused on poetry.
Nizar was born to a middle class family, and his father owned a sweets shop. During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. Nizar Qabbani ( ) is a famous Arab poet, who is very well known for his romantic and feminist poetry.He was born in Damascus on 21 March 1923. “When Qabbani was 15, his sister, who was 25 at the time, committed suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love. According to the Wiki link he was born in Damascus, Syria and suffered much tragedy. My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus It rings out from the house of my mother and father In Sham. I first saw this video posted on the Scarlet and Purple Tumblr blog, and i think she was attracted to it because the Gypsy fortune teller is using Crowley’s Thoth deck in her reading.īut I was immediately attracted to this tragic poem about love by Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani ( March 1923 – 30 April 1998) whom I had never heard of before, nor read his poems. My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus It rings out from the house of my mother and father In Sham.