| It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
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| Nizar Qabbani's father, Tawfiq Qabbani, was Syrian while his mother was of Turkish descent | Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness? " On Entering the Sea" 1998• A few months later, at the age of 75, Nizar Qabbani died in London on 30 April 1998 of a heart attack |
Darwish, Adel 5 May 1998.
| Egdhab kama Tashaa: Get angry as you may• Abhi Subedi : Sahitya ra Aam Britta p 189, 2014,• Qabbani's grandfather, , was one of the leading innovators in | Poetic influences [ ] When Qabbani was 15, his sister, who was 25 at the time, committed suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love |
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| Some of these collections include: English• at Poems Found in Translation• During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death | Her death had a severe psychological effect on Qabbani; he expressed his grief in his famous poem Balqis, blaming the entire Arab world for her death |
For instance, his poem Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat, a stinging self-criticism of Arab inferiority, drew anger from both the right and left sides of the Arab political dialogue.
19| Dalla nahda a oggi, a cura di M | On 21 March 2016, Google celebrated his 93rd birthday with a |
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| Over the course of a half-century, Qabbani wrote 34 other books of poetry, including:• Zahra Aqbiq died in 2007 | Other languages [ ] Many of Qabbani's poems have also been translated into English and other foreign languages, both individually and as collections of selected works |
His second marriage was to an named Balqis al-Rawi, a schoolteacher he met at a poetry recital in ; she was killed in the in during the on 15 December 1981.
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