March 21 ... Nizar Qabbani's birthday coincides with "International Poetry Day"

Today, March 21, marks the 98th anniversary of the birth of the late Syrian poet Nazal Qabbani, and it also coincides with the International Poetry Day that is celebrated on this day every year.

Tweeters launched on the social networking site "Twitter" the tag # Birthdays of Nizar Qabbani, expressing their love for the poet, whom they described as a poet of love and politics, noting that his birthday coincides with International Poetry Day, describing it as a "beautiful coincidence."

The tweeters found that this day is an occasion for everyone who loves the poet Nizar Qabbani to celebrate him, especially since he was one of the great poetry, from their point of view, especially since he featured his patriotic poems that are present so far with every major memory, so one of them said: “He does not need Nizar Qabbani to an occasion to celebrate him, but today's birthday may be an excuse for those who love this man who had unique patriotic poems .. and he was one of the best expressions of the nation’s victories, so that those poems are present with every major memory, automatically. .

Tweeters said that Nizar was not only a poet, but he was also a successful diplomat, and that he starred in the various types of poems he wrote. One of them said: “Nizar Qabbani, the Syrian poet and diplomat, who starred in writing prose as well as poetry, and in political and national songs, just as he starred in Romantic poems seem very difficult to write about, and he who composed expressions that still amaze us today, and invented his language that is resistant to imitation and repetition.

For their part, tweeters described the coincidence of Nizar’s birthday with World Poetry Day as a beautiful coincidence. One of them said: “Today, March 21, is the birth anniversary of the poet of love and war Nizar Qabbani .. It is also a beautiful coincidence today is International Poetry Day and Mother's Day.”

Another said: "Today marks the birthday of Nizar Qabbani, the poet, who knew perfectly well to deal with words, and whose poems have remained and will remain immortal ... As today marks the International Poetry Day ... it is a beautiful coincidence that brings poetry to the poet."

For their part, Twitter users emphasized that the date of the birth of Nizar is the new date for the birth of literature and poetry in our Arab world. One of them said: “On this day, on the 21st of March, a man was born who had the balance of poetry and was firmly established in the memory of Arabs and language. By his birth, he was the new birth of literature and poetry in our world, whose poems still inhabit the capitals of the Arab world.

Many of the tweeters also transmitted various verses of poetry by the poet Nizar Qabbani, especially the one he speaks about the mother, as today also coincides with the day of the mother, and one of the tweets published verses that say: "Oh my mother ... I am the boy who sailed and still in his mind lives the sugar bride, so how." How, mom, did you become a father ... and why did I grow up? "

It is noteworthy that Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in the “Minaret al-Shaham” neighborhood on March 21, 1923, and grew up in a traditional Damascene house of an ancient Damascene Arab family, and died on April 30, 1998 in London, and was buried in his hometown.