On the contrary, it is a beautiful and thought-provoking poem from a poet who loved women. At first, I thought this was a poet who had been bitter towards a lover. 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…….(and)……”His second marriage was to an Iraqi woman named Balqis al-Rawi, a schoolteacher whom he met at a poetry recital in Baghdad she was killed in a bomb attack by guerrillas on the in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war on 15 December 1981.”īTW Wiki has external links to more of his poetry, and below this video are the YT words in English and those spoken in Arabic in the video of this particular poem. The first poem that I read from Nizar Qabbani was A Letter from a Stupid Woman.
NIZAR QABBANI FEMINIST POEM FREE
I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. 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. During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. “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.
According to the Wiki link he was born in Damascus, Syria and suffered much tragedy. I first saw this video posted on the Scarlet and Purple Tumblr blog, and i think she was attracted to it because the Gypsy fortune teller is using Crowley’s Thoth deck in her reading.īut I was immediately attracted to this tragic poem about love by Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani ( March 1923 – 30 April 1998) whom I had never heard of before, nor read his poems.
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