Nizar Qabbani
Who is Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani (Arabic: نزار توفيق قباني, ALA-LC: Nizār Tawfīq Qabbānī, French: Nizar Kabbani; 21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet, writer and publisher. He is considered to be Syria's National Poet. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab empowerment against foreign imperialism and local dictators. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world.
Biography
Early life
Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family. His mother, Faiza Akbik, is of Turkish descent. Qabbani was raised in Mi'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus and studied at...
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Nizar Qabbani Poems
- Bread, Hashish And Moon.
When the moon is born in the east,
And the white rooftops drift asleep
Under the heaped-up light,
People leave their shops and march forth in groups
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- I Have No Power
"I have no power to change you
or explain your ways
Never believe a man can change a woman
Those men are pretenders
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- When I Love You
When I love you
A new language springs up,
New cities, new countries discovered.
The hours breathe like puppies,
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- School Of Love
Your love taught me how to grieve,
And for centuries I needed a woman to make me grieve,
I needed a woman
To make me cry on her shoulders like a bird,
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- Two African Breasts
Let me find time
to welcome in this love
that comes unbid.
Let me find time
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Comments about Nizar Qabbani
- Sr001227: nizar qabbani makes me feel some type of way frfr
- Atefehkhanoom: we killed you & it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the prophet & the friends of god. o how many messengers did we slay? o how many imams? we killed you & you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - & all of our days are karbala.
― nizar qabbani
- Coaching4releva: leadership & organizational maneuverability aligned: "the finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it!" - nizar qabbani
- Asalmonofdoubt: ... had i told the sea
what i felt for you
it would have left its shores,
its shells,
its fish,
and followed me
~ nizar qabbani
- Aloof_loner: when nizar qabbani said , "the finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it " it hit me so damn hard
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