Arabian Love Poems Nizar Qabbani Pdf Files
Author by:Languange: enPublisher by:Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 37Total Download: 683File Size: 53,5 MbDescription: AbstractThe subject of this dissertation is the life achievement of Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998). The study follows two tracks, one literary focused on the poetry and biography of the poet, and one historical focused on the concurrent political and social developments in the Arab world in the twentieth century. The two tracks contextualize and elucidate each other to form a mega-narrative of Arab life in modern times. The narrative begins by investigating the intellectual world in which Nizar grew up, continues on to examine his unique personal and familial makeup as well as the social and political context of the times, then proceeds to analyze his poetic achievement as it unfolded.
In so doing, a picture emerges of the Arab experience in modern times as reflected in Nizar's own creative experience and tumultuous life. The narrative concentrates initially on Syria, more specifically on Damascus, being the birthplace and the breeding ground where the poet's character was first shaped. But once the poet leaves on his many journeys, a wider perspective is adopted to highlight the many other influences that ultimately went into his making, reverting back to Syria insomuch as it continued to influence the poet's unfolding narrative. Although a chronological line threads through the work starting from the poet's birth in 1923 to his passing in 1998, this line is accentuated throughout the life of the poet by the many places he lived in - cities that left their distinctive mark on his consciousness and poetry. As such, the mega-narrative, much like a journey, sets a background of progressive time against a foreground of places that give meaning to the timeline. In general terms, this study views the life of Nizar Qabbani in three interrelated and overlapping stages: a sensuous period (1923-52) that can be poetically described as local, direct, masculine, confident, and joyful; a period of social responsibility (1952-1973) that can be described as mixed, confused, itinerant, transvestite (both feminine and masculine), rebellious and conformist, happy and unhappy at the same time; and an exilic period (1973-1998): committed, feminine, rebellious, esoteric, melancholic and despairing. Author by: George Nicolas El-hage, Ph.d.Languange: enPublisher by: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 13Total Download: 292File Size: 50,6 MbDescription: As the title of this book indicates, this is Nizar's journey in life as a student, a son, a man, a lover, a revolutionary, a rebel, a diplomat, a patriot, an ambassador, a world traveler, a citizen of the world, a literary critic, a champion of women's rights, and a Don Juan.
Above all, he is a pioneer of Modern Arabic Poetry and the innovative 'poet par excellence' who stood firmly and honestly in the face of the literary and political establishments that held, at that time and for the past thousand years before, an absolute monopoly on the fettered mind and on the restrained imagination of generations of young Arab men and women, both politicians and intellectuals alike. Nizar stood unyielding. He was a 'Man against the Empire.' He was the uncompromising witness to his times and era, an effectual participant who helped shape the new movement in Modern Arabic Poetry and modernize the Arabic language and the Arab nation's outlook towards women, love, sex, emotions, and most definitely, patriotic sentiments that were until then politically correct but phony and void of any national passion or commitment. Nizar Qabbani was never a casual observer standing on the margin of history or a bearer of false witness and fake testimony; instead, he was the storm that brought the change and the mirror in which the Arab nation saw its putrefied and failing body reflected and suspended in a vacuum on the decomposed garment of tradition and worn out institutions. This book is not just an autobiography of Nizar Qabbani; rather, it is a comprehensive testimony of his era and a multi-faceted historical and humanistic document that records the story of the Arab nation's emotional, political, social, literary, and cultural struggle against its own outdated tradition, against foreign influences, and ultimately against itself and its own demons of superstition, magic, fables, and archaic beliefs. Author by: George Nicolas El-Hage Ph DLanguange: enPublisher by:Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 41Total Download: 346File Size: 50,9 MbDescription: In Nizar Qabbani's own words: 'This book in which I have collected some of my dialogues with the press.
And excerpts from TV interviews concerning the topic of women. Is simply an attempt to correct the old picture that has been engraved in people's memory about me. Hoping to replace it with a more modern image and also more humane.
After forty years of wandering across the regions of poetry and women.I feel that my image in people's minds is still cloudy, confused, and veiled with colors that are blended and intermingled. In spite of what is being said about me. That I am the most widely read poet from the Gulf to the Ocean.I continue to feel that I am also the saddest poet from the Gulf to the Ocean.I still feel that out there.
There are those who still read me wrongly. Understand me wrongly. And even those who slaughter me wrongly.I do understand that choosing women as a primary subject matter for poetry is a difficult choice. That even choosing women as a topic of discussion is in itself a taboo. And that he who touches a woman's hand is like one who touches a burning coal. I also know that getting involved in a relationship with a beautiful woman in my country is like getting involved in a smuggling operation.
Or like robbing a bank. Author by: George Nicolas El-hage, Ph.d.Languange: enPublisher by: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 83Total Download: 243File Size: 45,6 MbDescription: Nizar Qabbani is the most celebrated and popular poet in contemporary Arabic Literature. He remains one of the most prolific and influential Avant-guard poets of Modern Arabic Poetry.
His writings constitute a School of thought, a movement, a trend, that produced a large number of followers across the Arab world who tried to imitate Nizar and adopt the path that he pioneered, but none earned the fame and prestige that Qabbani achieved. Nizar started his career writing about love, romance and romantic and erotic topics. These were fiery subjects and mostly taboo at the time. He was severely criticized by the conservative establishments, but this never deterred him. His goal was to expose the injustice imposed on women, to openly discuss love and passion without shame, and to free the Arab spirit from the years of bondage in the dungeons of past traditions.
His poetry later evolved into the political arena, and he wrote the most moving and effective political poetry criticizing the then current Arab regimes and exposing their failures, complacency and ultimate defeat in facing the national responsibility that they were entrusted with. In his poetry, Nizar continued the theme of love poetry that was started by Omru' al-Qays in Pre Islamic Arabia and then popularized by the two Umayyad poets: Jamil Bin Mu 'ammar and 'Umar Bin Abi Rabi 'a.
In his poetry, Nizar combined the elegance, transparency, sexuality, and piety of the three poets and brought poetry to the homes and dining tables of the millions in the Arab world who loved him and admired his poems. He wanted to make poetry like bread a daily nourishment available to every person who could read Arabic. On the other hand, when Nizar Qabbani wrote his political poetry, he was focused, critical, harsh, punitive, severe and unforgiving.
He was bleeding for his nation and eulogizing its failures and defeats. When Nizar wrote about love, he dipped his plum in Jasmine and rose water. But when he wrote his political satire, he dipped his pen in blood.
This book is not about sex and seduction. This book is an existential document written by an abused woman awaiting her execution.
She knew that there is 'No Exit,' yet she chose to overcome her fate and write. This is a surrealistic diary of a frustrated female pushed to her limits by the costumes, traditions, and beliefs of a rigid society that treats women as slaves and empowers men to rule over them. This nameless female, a modern Scheherazade, stood face to face against her assassin in her attempt to triumph over death by documenting her story, and consequently, the story of the millions of women who were sacrificed daily in the bedchamber of Shahrayar.
However, the frustration, anger, despair and dejection of all these women is also evident and is shared by men at the end of the book as the ' men' admit their guilt and sin that has accompanied them since the 'Age of Ignorance' in Pre-Islamic Arabia. Author by: Shmuel MorehLanguange: enPublisher by: Brill ArchiveFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 85Total Download: 700File Size: 55,9 MbDescription: 'The purpose of this book is to trace the development of the differing forms employed in various liteary movements in modern Arabic poetry. This development seems to me the most important elemment in the understanding of the contemporary revolution in Arabic poetry.
Arabian Love Poems Nizar Qabbani Pdf Files Free
Moreover, this revolution is considered to be the first in the history of Arabic poetry in which the influence of foreign literature has been such that it las almost completely cut off modervn Arabic poetry from its classical heritage.' From Introduction.