Nizar Qabbani(1923-1998)
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A Syrian poet known by the title (Women's Poet). He was born in one of the old neighborhoods of Damascus, and obtained his baccalaureate from the National Scientific College School in Damascus, then joined the Faculty of Law at the Syrian University and graduated in (1944), and worked immediately after his graduation in the diplomatic corps at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and moved in its embassies between Cairo, London, Beirut and Madrid, and after the completion of the union between Egypt And Syria in (1959) was appointed second secretary of the United Republic in its embassy in China, and he continued to work in the diplomatic corps until he resigned in (1966), and the clerics in Syria had demanded his expulsion from the foreign ministry and his dismissal from diplomatic work in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century after the publication of his famous poem (bread, hashish and moon) Which raised against him a severe storm that reached Parliament. He started writing poetry when he was 16 years old, and he published his first collections of poetry (The Samra told me) in (1944), and at that time he was a student at the Faculty of Law, and he printed it at his own expense. He also wrote a large number of prose books, the most important of which are (My Story with Poetry, What is Poetry, 100 Love Letters), and established a publishing house for his works in Beirut called (Nizar Qabbani Publications). He mastered the English language, especially since he learned that language on its origins when he served as the Syrian ambassador in London between (1952 - 1955). He married twice, the first from Syria called (Zahra) and had children from her (Hadaba, Tawfik and Zahra), and Tawfik died of heart disease at the age of 17 , He was a student at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, and he bequeathed him with a famous poem entitled (The Legendary Prince Tawfik Qabbani), and he recommended that he be buried next to him after his death, and his second wife is the Iraqi (Bilqis Al-Rawi), who was killed in the explosion of the Iraqi embassy in Beirut in 1982, and her departure left a bad psychological impact on him and he inherited With a famous poem called (Bilqis), he blamed the entire Arab world for her murder. He has two sons, Omar and Zainab, and lived his last years in an apartment in the English capital alone.