Aya Mansour-Baghdad

"In every brave cow, in the hut that dwells in sorrow, everywhere a soul cries in the dark, everywhere a voice cries." Thus, Iraqi poet Nazik al-Angels broke the pillars of traditional poetry with her new poems, creating a new spirit and new molds, leaving an indelible and immortal effect as her poems .

The angels were not born in an environment far from poetry, as they grew up in a family fond of writing and literature. On August 23, 1923, the eldest daughter was named the eldest of her four brothers, named after the Syrian Nazik al-Abid, who faced the French occupation at the time.

She was encouraged and learned to read intensively by her father, author and researcher Sadeq Jaffar Al-Malaika, who studied Arabic in secondary schools and left many important works, including the "People's Knowledge Circle" consisting of 20 volumes, and her mother Salma Abdul Razzaq, who wrote vertical poetry and published it in newspapers The local nickname is "Mother of Nizar angels", where she kept her daughter on her hand all the offers of poetry and weights, to begin Nazek writing poetry at the age of ten.

She studied Arabic Language at the High Teachers' College in Baghdad and graduated in 1944. She completed her master's degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, returning to her first poetry collection "Lovers of the Night" in 1947, which was written in the style of vertical poetry.

Cholera poem
Nazek Al-Angels published her first poem in the world of poetry "cholera" in 1947 when she listened to the news of this disease - which hit Egypt - and the large number of victims.

The poem was written no later than an hour to speed up to her sister Ahsan and read her the new poem and impressed her sister, unlike her parents who were looking for rhyme in the poem citing lack of the spirit of poetry with high expectations of failure.

Everything that was guessed by the poet Nazek happened despite the fact that her poems were not welcomed at first in a literary environment that preserves old methods and rejects any new experience that she deviates from the main theme known in Arabic literature.

The poem "Cholera" sparked a big debate between Nazek and the Iraqi poet Badr Shaker al-Sayyab, who published the poem "Was It Love?" Free weight in 1946, before the angels issued the poem "cholera", and then begin a literary war on the priority and the right of the creator of free poetry and the leader in it.

In the alienation
She worked as an assistant professor at the University of Baghdad and then moved to teach at the University of Basra after her marriage to Dr. Abdul Hadi Mahbouba, who was a professor at the University of Baghdad and then became president of Basra University when they moved together.

She went on to Kuwait and studied at her university. She then left for Cairo after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, completing her life there and dying quietly in Cairo on June 20, 2007.

The Angels presented many of the literary productions of the new poetic world through the writings of "The Lover of the Night" (1947), "Fragments and Ashes" (1949), "The Sorrow of the Wave" (1957), "The Moon Tree" (1968) She also has Literature and Intellectual Invasion (1965) and Lectures on the Poetry of Ali Mahmoud Taha (1965).

She published a poetry book entitled "The Tragedy of Life and Song of Man" (1970). She also has "Fragmentation in the Arab Society" (1974), "Prayer and Revolution" (1977).

Al-Dhafiri believes that the poetry of angels is a cry against what Arab women (Al-Jazeera)

The crowding of men
The literary critic and specialist in the Arabic language Dr. Ahmed Zafairi confirms that the poet Nazek Angels ran men in the area difficult to penetrate by women, the poetic scene, and perhaps the term is more difficult when it is in Iraq, the land of poetry.

Al-Zafairi says that "the more Nazik remembers the angels, the more it rejects the status of women's literature. She refused to put her product under these names, and she was limited to the artistic description that placed the monetary ground on her own when she wrote her critical book" Issues of Contemporary Poetry. " Then poets of the poetry poem / free poetry. "

Nazik revolted on the worn traditions - as described by al-Dhafiri - which reflected that in her poetry, and many of it was a cry against what Arab women suffer. When women are restricted from love in general, they stop loving life,

My destiny is shameful
And my suicide suicide
My blood is silent, and the neutralization is disabled
Ah if I decompose
From my power to taste your light
And the nose of the necks
Your perfume is fresher than anything and most beautiful

Alia al-Maliki: We need women to challenge difficulties such as Nazik Al-Malaikah (Al-Jazeera)

Poet of humanity
Dr. Al-Zafairi believes that all of them would have affirmed that Nazik is an artist and a poet, but he sees it as a human poet first and a second Arab, whose spirit is saturated with the issues of the Arab countries that have undergone their revolutions and liberation days. Revolution ".

"On the anniversary of the departure of the poet Nazik al-Angels we touch the ink of her words in her poetic collection and in her critical book, while she left us with a great intellectual and literary heritage that makes us proud of her constant stay among us."

For her part, tells the poet Alia al-Maliki of the island Net questions chasing the ability of Nazik the angels to escape from the sacred skies governed by specific poetic patterns to exercise their poetry rebellion, which fought for the fracture of all the cement blocks that were at the top of the literary scene at the time.

"In our time we do not have that magical ax that can turn the scene today and unleash a new literary cry like Nazik the Angels that has managed to challenge all the odds," says Maliki, who is currently preparing a documentary about Nazek's life.