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.
Qabbani as a law student in Damascus, 1944.
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, which he published in 1942. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1945. He later studied law at 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 was raised in Mi'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus and studied at the National Scientific College School in Damascus between 19. His mother, Faiza Akbik, is of Turkish descent. Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family.
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