Poet Nizar Qabbani

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Nizar Qabbani

Living place: Damascus

Birthday: 21-3-1923 (101 years old)

Global rank: #39183

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Who is Poet Nizar Qabbani?
Syrian poet and diplomat known for 100 Love Letters, poems against the Law, and other works. He published more than thirty books of poetry during his career; Many of his poems have been translated into English.
His sister committed suicide to avoid marrying a man she did not love. This event led a fifteen-year-old Qabbani to speak out against the social treatment of women.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He wrote his first poetry collection, The Brunette Told Me, while in college. He shocked society by filling the pieces with sexual references to the female body.

Family life info

He married and had two children with his cousin Zahra Aqbiq. After her death, he kissed an Iraqi teacher named Balqis al-Rawi who was later killed in an embassy bombing.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Nizar Qabbani?
He and Ali Said were both Syrian poets.

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When was Poet Nizar Qabbani born?
Nizar Qabbani birthday 21-3-1923 (at the age of 101).
Where is Poet Nizar Qabbani's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Nizar Qabbani was born in Damascus, of Syria. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Nizar Qabbani's global rank is 39183 and whose rank is 112 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1923 and 21-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Nizar Qabbani

  • Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich fails; in 1924 he is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf . He is released after eight months.
  • Earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo.
  • Occupation of Ruhr by French and Belgian troops to enforce reparations payments. Background: Holocaust Reparations

Birthday Nizar Qabbani (21-3) in history

  • Day 21-3 year 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury was imprisoned in Oxford, UK, accused of heresy.
  • Day 21-3 year 1804: The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
  • Day 21-3 year 1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • Day 21-3 year 1960: Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. 25 years later, a march marking the anniversary was also disrupted by police fire.
  • Day 21-3 year 1963: Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
  • Day 21-3 year 1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Day 21-3 year 2010: The House of Representatives passes a bill that will overhaul the American health-care system. The bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be sent to President Obama to sign into law.
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