What should I tell him? Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani, the Arab poet who was called the Women’s Poet, was born in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in 1923. He is from the Qabbani family, which is one of the ancient Damascene families. He studied law at the Syrian University and graduated from it in 1945.

Nizar Qabbani began writing traditional poetry and then moved to vertical poetry. Nizar Qabbani developed modern Arabic poetry to a great extent. He was the founder of a poetic and intellectual school. Nizar Qabbani was famous for his romantic poems that appeared in his first four collections of romantic poems.

In 1956, Nizar Qabbani transformed from romantic poems into a collection of poems entitled “Poems from Nizar Qabbani,” in which he criticized the idleness of Arab societies with a poem entitled “Bread, Hashish, and the Moon.”

He had some political poems, the most famous of which is “Footnotes on the Setback Notebook” (1967), which dealt with the defeat of the Arabs in the June setback at the hands of Israel. Also among his important works are “My Love” (1961), “Painting with Words” (1966) and “Arabic Love Poems” ( 1993). “Which was the period of the nineties of his political poems entitled: “When will they announce the death of the Arabs?? And Joggers. Among his beautiful romantic poems that we will show you is the poem What Should I Tell Him?