Nizar Qabbani On Love   Published in 2000 In Arabic  special offer 3$    Special price in LE for addresses inside Egypt.  Join the readers club and get our  selections every month  2002 Selections 2001 Selections
For Readers in English, we suggest: On Entering the Sea : The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qubbani by Lena Jayyusi-Translator Paperback - March 1996 Suggested Price: $12.00 For reviews on this book please check Further Reading
Further reading The Author's homepage   in English  Editorial Review, On Entering the Sea in English A selection of Nizar's Poetry  in Arabic A selection of Nizar's Poetry  in English

Editorial Review from Booklist

Qabbani, reputed to be the most popular poet in the Arab world, is certainly one of the greatest love poets of all time, as he follows the noble path of Kahlil Gibran. Although wonderfully prolific and internationally renowned, Damascus-born Qabbani has been all but unavailable in English translations in the U.S. This beautiful collection rectifies that situation. The volume's introduction asserts that Qabbani is a heroic champion of women's rights who, by equating beauty and eroticism with liberty and justice, and celebrating women in all their strength and glory, challenges in his poetry his culture's cruel repression of women. In his classically passionate poems, poems as bright as flowers and as caressing as a pool of water, Qabbani declares that to be female is to be holy. This is a sweet message for any woman, but especially for Arabian women, who are viewed as the property of their male relatives. Whether he's writing of love or war, Qabbani achieves a mythic dimension. Donna Seaman