Nizar qabbani biography of abraham

  • Born in Damascus on 21 March 1923, he studied law at Damascus University.
  • Qabbani lived his life defending women and their right to live a dignified life.
  • Nizar Qabbani here captures the intensely sorrowful allure of Jerusalem, heart of the Holy Land.

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    Nizar Qabbani
    by
    Ahmad Barakat
    • LAST REVIEWED: 24 June 2020
    • LAST MODIFIED: 24 June 2020
    • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0272

  • AlKhalil, Muhamed. Nizar Qabbani: From Romance to Exile. PhD diss., University of Arizona, 2005.

    The subject of this study fryst vatten the life achievement of Nizar Qabbani. It follows two tracks: a literary track focusing on the poetry and biography of the poet, and a historical track focusing on the social developments in the Arab world in the 20th century.

  • Gabay, Zvi. “Nizar Qabbani, The Poet and His Poetry.” Middle Eastern Studies 9 (1964): 207–222.

    DOI: 10.1080/00263207308700241

    A study of the life and poetry of Nizar Qabbani.

  • Al-Haffar Kuzbari, Salma. Dhikrayat isbaniyah wa-Andalusiyah maa Nizar Qabbani wa-rasailuh. Al-Tabah, Saudi Arabia: Dar al-Nahar, 2001.

    Research about the memories of Nizar Qabbani in Spain.

  • El-Hage, George Nicolas, trans. Nizar Qabbani: My Story with Poetry; “An Auto

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    The War Against Words

    Photo courtesy of The Guardian

    “We are accused of terrorism

    If we dare to write about the remains of a homeland….

    About a homeland where birds are not allowed to sing

    About a homeland where writers must use invisible ink….” Nizar Qabbani (We are accused of terrorism)

    Had writer V.V. Ganeshananthan lived in Jaffna instead of New York, she would have been summoned by Sri Lanka’s Counter Terrorism Investigative Division (CTID) and grilled for a couple of hours over her second book, Brotherless Night, as the Vavuniya CTID did with Pradeepan Deepachelvan. a young Tamil writer, over his first book, Nadugal (translated into Sinhala by P.P. Sarath Ananda as Smaraka Shilavatha). He was questioned for over two hours on such matters as whether he is trying revive the LTTE.

    “I recently sent a letter to a terrorist I used to know.” With such self-incrimination begins Ms. Ganeshananthan’s book. So much in that one line to keep the CTID busy for a y

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    Writing in exile, Syrian author’s tales confront human ‘contradiction, complexity, madness’

    Syrian author Osama Alomar left Damascus for Chicago in 2008. An intelligence officer had called a local paper that published one of Alomar’s fiction stories in which a Syrian military boot was a main character. The officer wanted to know the author’s whereabouts. Now one of countless Syrians choosing exile, Alomar has not been home since.

    “My situation, as one who can only observe what is happening in Syria, fills me with a painful helplessness,” Alomar tells Syria Direct’s Sama Mohammed.  

    “I cannot do anything as I look toward this hell that has swallowed up Syria and its people.”

    Born in Damascus in 1968, Alomar studied Arabic literature at the University of Damascus. Before immigrating to the United States in 2008, the writer published his work in Syria and Lebanon, positioning himself as an adept poet and pr

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