Foolish woman Nizar Qabbani

Foolish woman Nizar Qabbani

Nizar bin Tawfiq al-Qabbani, a contemporary Syrian poet, was born in 1923 from an ancient Damascene family. His grandfather was Abu Khalil al-Qabbani, the pioneer of the Arab theater. Nizar Qabbani studied law at the Syrian University and graduated in 1945 AD. He joined the diplomatic corps, where he moved between different capitals until 1966 when he submitted his resignation.

Nizar Qabbani knew many tragedies in his life. In his childhood, he lived through the suicide of his sister, and when he married Balqis, he lived her death in a suicide bombing in Beirut. Then his son Tawfiq died, and he inherited him in his poem “The Kharafi Prince Tawfiq Qabbani.”

His first collection of poetry was published in 1944 AD, titled “The Brunette Said to Me,” and his collections reached thirty-five in half a century, the most prominent of which are “Nahd’s Childhood” and “Painting with Words.” Nizar Qabbani established a house to publish his works in Beirut called “Nizar Qabbani Publications,” and one of his most important poems The most prominent of which is what he said in Damascus and Beirut, “The Damascene Poem,” “Oh Lady of the World, O Beirut.”

The year 1967 AD when the “setback” occurred was a turning point in his experience and performance, as after this experience he became outside the traditional style and was described as a “poet of love and women” due to his interference in the arena of politics, and his poem “Margins on the setback notebook” stirred up a storm in the Arab countries until his poems were banned in the Arab media.