![]() If you dissect my body, grapes and apples will come out of it. He was the poet of Damascus: I am the Damascene. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women s rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. Arabian Love Poems is the first English-language collection of his work.Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. In his poetry the harmony of the heart, and in his blood the melody of love. 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. ![]() Nizar Kabbani s poetry has been described as more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together (Lebanese Daily Star). ![]()
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