Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani (Arabic, نزار قباني): Syrian diplomat and one of the most famous contemporary Arab poets (Damascus, March 21, 1923 - London, April 30, 1998). It is known mainly by a poetry of loving and sexual character and by the use of a "third language", based on the most impeccable literary Arabic, it aims to capture the vividness and the elasticity of the Syrian colloquial speech