Nizar Qabbani was a Syrian-born poet, lawyer and diplomat who lived for much of his life outside of the middle east where he was able to express himself with a great deal more freedom than would have been allowed in his homeland. His work was often seen as a homage to womanhood and he campaigned staunchly for their equal rights. Losing his sister to suicide had a profound effect on the 15 years old Nizar – she killed herself to avoid being forced to marry someone she did not love. He was never afraid to speak out against Arab authoritarianism, holding much more liberal views of politics than most home-based Syrians.
He was born Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani in in Damascus. The son of a middle class merchant father he was able to attend good schools and he went on to gain a law degree from the university in his home town. He dabbled in poetry while doing his degree and caused some consternation by publishing a collection of romantic poems called The Brunette Told Me. With frequent references to the female form this was not what society in Damascus was used to but he managed to get a leading politician in the education department on his side, thus rubber stamping the book as “acce
Qabbani, Nizar (–)
Nizar Qabbani was a renowned Syrian poet and diplomat. Known for his progressive thinking, his fame reigned supreme during his lifetime and seems to persist beyond his death.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Qabbani was born on 21 March in Damascus, Syria, to a middle-class merchant family with a Syrian father and Turkish mother. He was related to the pioneering Arab playwright Abu Khalil al-Qabbani. Nizar Qabbani studied law at the University of Damascus where he graduated in and subsequently launched a diplomatic career that year which took him to all five continents. He served in the Syrian embassies in Egypt (–), Turkey (), Lebanon, Britain, China, and Spain. His posting in Spain was his favorite; there he wrote some of his most memorable verse. In he retired as a diplomat and moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he founded a publishing company called Manshurat. He became one of the Arab world's greatest poets, living the rest of his life outside Syria. He died in London on 30 April
INFLUENCES AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Qabbani's poetry covers a host of different topics and themes. More than any other modern Arab poet he has become identified with writings about the role and sta
Nizar Qabbani: My Story with Poetry : an Autobiography
As the title of this book indicates, this is Nizar's journey in life as a student, a son, a man, a lover, a revolutionary, a rebel, a diplomat, a patriot, an ambassador, a world traveler, a citizen of the world, a literary critic, a champion of women's rights, and a Don Juan. Above all, he is a pioneer of Modern Arabic Poetry and the innovative "poet par excellence" who stood firmly and honestly in the face of the literary and political establishments that held, at that time and for the past thousand years before, an absolute monopoly on the fettered mind and on the restrained imagination of generations of young Arab men and women, both politicians and intellectuals alike. Nizar stood unyielding. He was a "Man against [the] Empire." He was the uncompromising witness to his times and era, an effectual participant who helped shape the new movement in Modern Arabic Poetry and modernize the Arabic language and the Arab nation's outlook towards women, love, sex, emotions, and most definitely, patriotic sentiments that were until then politically correct but phony and void of any national passion or commitment. Nizar Qabb
Nizar Qabbani telah menjadi penulis yang produktif sepanjang hidupnya. Penyair Suriah ini telah mengabdikan hidupnya untuk menulis dan menulis beberapa ayat cemerlang yang masih membuat dunia Sastra Arab bangga. Sejak usia yang sangat dini, ia mulai mengekspresikan emosi dan pikirannya melalui media puisi. Dia sangat terluka ketika saudara perempuannya bunuh diri, tetapi alasan di balik itu lebih berdampak padanya. Ketika ia muncul sebagai penyair, ia mencoba menyuarakan pendapatnya tentang hak-hak perempuan melalui puisinya. Hampir semua tulisannya didominasi oleh feminisme dan dia, dengan sangat baik menggambarkan penderitaan perempuan dalam masyarakat kontemporer. Dia cukup berani untuk mengemukakan ideologinya kepada masyarakat, meskipun mereka berani dan jauh di depan zaman mereka. Advokasi perempuan dan cara dia menyusun puisinya membuatnya terlibat dalam berbagai kontroversi. Namun, ini tidak bisa mengakhiri pemikirannya atau mengubah cara dia menulis. Penulis ini juga mewakili negaranya sebagai duta besar untuk banyak negara lain. Namun, ia kemudian berhenti dari pekerjaannya sebagai diplomat dan mendedikasikan hidupnya untuk menulis karya sastra yang berbeda dan luar bi
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