قصائد الأغاني

by Nizar Qabbani, نزار قباني

Genres: Poetry

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is considered to be Syria's National Poet.

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. During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. When asked whether he was a revolutionary, the poet answered: “Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” He is known as one of the most feminist and progressive intellectuals of his time.

While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. 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. To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend of his father and a leading nationalist leader in Syria. Ajlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book.

The city of Damascus remained a powerful muse in his poetry, most notably in the Jasmine Scent of Damascus. The 1967 Six-Day War also influenced his poetry and his lament for the Arab cause. The defeat marked a qualitative shift in Qabbani's work – from erotic love poems to poems with overt political themes of rejectionism and resistance. 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.

Reviews

[Huda Aweys · Rating 2 out of 5]

عبد الحليم و نجاة و كاظم و امثالهم من المطربين اللى غنوا لنزار .. كانوا اذكى من انهم يغنوا قصائد نزار كاملة :) كانوا بينتقوا مقاطع منها و يجتنبوا اخرى ، من اللى بتحوى كلمات (قحة) و ما الى ذلك
عشان كده اللى اتعرفوا على نزار من خلال اغانيه ، من العامة ، دايما مابيفهموش و مابيوصلهمش احنا ليه بننتقده .. و بيظل نزار بالنسبة لهم ايقونة الحب و الرومانسية .. و عجبي
:) !!!

[Lina AL Ojaili · Rating 3 out of 5]

لا تسألوني ما إسمه حبيبي أخشى عليكم ضوعة الطيوب
والله لو بحت بأي حرف تكدس الليلك في الدروب
ترونه في ضحكة السواقي في رفة الفراشة اللعوب
في البحر في تنفس المراعي و في غناء كل عندليب
في أدمع الشتاء حين يبكي و في عطاء الديمة السكوب
محاسن لا ضمها كتاب و لا إدعتها ريشة الأديب
لا تسألوني ما إسمه كفاكم فلن أبوح بإسمه حبيبي
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[شيماء فؤاد · Rating 4 out of 5]

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