"Whoever loves his country, Mr. President, purifies its wounds with alcohol, and with fire cauterizes—if need be—the areas that are wounded."
Launching Today: ArabLit Quarterly Summer 2020, the CRIME Issue
The Summer 2020 issue of ArabLit Quarterly — our issue of summer insight & delight — is now available.
Qabbani Love Poems for Your Valentine’s Day
The Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) was one of the most popular Arabic-language poets of the twentieth century, well-known for his focus on eroticism and love. As Bassam Frangieh notes in his introduction to Arabian Love Poems, a collection of Qabbani's work he co-translated with Clementina Brown, "To say that Kabbani was the most popular and famous of contemporary Arab poets is not to claim that he was the most skilled."
