He wrote extensively during these years and his poems from China were some of his finest. In 1959, when the United Arab Republic was formed, Qabbani was appointed Vice-Secretary of the UAR for its embassies in China. Diplomatic careerĪfter graduating from law school, Qabbani worked for the Syrian Foreign Ministry, serving as Consul or cultural attaché in several capital cities, including Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, and London.
Ajlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book. To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend of his father and a leading nationalist leader in Syria. It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus. While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1945. He later studied law at the Damascus University, which was called Syrian University until 1958. The school was owned and run by his father's friend, Ahmad Munif al-Aidi. Qabbani studied at the national Scientific College School in Damascus between 19. Qabbani was raised in Mi'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus. His mother, Faiza Akbik, is of Turkish descent. Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family of mixed Turkish and Arab descent.
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