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Mortgages the land and the believers and the heritageįouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and co-chairman of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. NIZAR QABBANI, THE POET AND HIS POETRY 209 ambassador to Communist China. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: world distribution of Islam. from “The Autobiography of an Arab Man of the Sword”Įvery twenty years a narcissist comes our way Reflecting on his death in 1998, Sulhi Al-Wadi wrote (in Tishreen), 'Qabbani is like water, bread, and the sun in every Arab heart and house. Who will administer to them ninety lashes Nizar Qabbani Poems Nizar Kabbani’s poetry has been described as 'more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together' (Lebanese Daily Star). It is true that there are other poets as. Ill try to keep adding to this when I get the time. Nizr Qabbnis political poetry can be regarded as a completely new phenomenon in modern Arabic poetry. Foreman Click here to hear me recite the Arabic And I decided to go. Who, after me, will rule the good people?Īnd who will summon the dead back to life? Some excerpts, from the rather lengthy Risaalat Hub (Love Letter), which you can read in its entirety at (in Arabic).See below for links. And I Decided By Nizar Qabbani Translated by A.Z. He served as a diplomat for his Syrian homeland but gave that up in 1966 and settled in Beirut. The horrors of Beirut in the mid-1980s led him to exile in London, where he died in 1998. Naturally the Syrian despotism was eager to claim him, and the late dictator Hafez Assad sent a plane to take Qabbani's body back for burial in Damascus.
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He was born in Damascus in 1923. He started out as a romantic poet, with daring poems of love and the heart’s adventures, but eventually he gravitated toward political subjects, and wrote unforgettable poems about the cultural and political maladies of the Arab world-he was a fierce opponent of dictatorship. Translator's note: Nizar Qabbani was the most popular and beloved Arab poet of the second half of the twentieth century.