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"The bird returns to its nest and the child to its mother's breast" -- words from Nizar Qabbani's last testament. Qabbani, who died last week in London at the age of 75 and was buried in his native Damascus, achieved unprecedented fame as an Arab poet, commanding a mass audience. The political stands struck in his later work fanned the flames of controversy to which Qabbani was never a stranger. Outspoken, never shying away from taboos, Qabbani nonetheless maintained a popularity that allowed him to abandon his career as a diplomat and concentrate full-time on his writing. Below, four Arab poets write about the Qabbani phenomenon
The man and the myth
Ahmed Abdel-Moeti Hegazi remembers Nizar Qabbani
Reconciling poetry and the people
Mahmoud Darwish remembers Nizar Qabbani
Blessed be the quest
Saadi Youssef remembers Nizar Qabbani
Bars, streets, sidewalks
Abbas Baidoun remembers Nizar Qabbani
Qabbani's works
Qabbani's works
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