2023-07-08 08:12:06
The name of the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani has always been associated with women and their femininity, and choosing the title “Women’s Poet” for him was not an absurd choice.
Nizar Qabbani wrote throughout his life poems for women, and although he denied that each of his poems was for a specific woman, he lived during his life multiple love stories, so that his story with his wife Balqis remains at the top of these stories and the most truthful. Is it in tune with the idea of the marital institution, and adapts to its monotonous rhythm and frustrating requirements?
Let’s get to know the love story of Nizar Qabbani and his last wife, Balqis!
first meet
Ten years following his divorce from his first wife, and the mother of his two sons, Zahraa, the poet met an Iraqi woman named Balqis al-Rawi, for the first time, at a poetry evening held in Baghdad in 1962, and she caught his interest in her impressive presence, so he did not hesitate for a moment before searching for her identity and place of residence, and proposed to her as soon as he knew She gave some details regarding her life, but her father categorically refused this matter, fearing what he knew regarding the poet, and his stories with women and his games.
After that, Nizar joined the Syrian diplomatic corps in Spain, but he was unable, despite the passage of more than seven years, to forget Bilqis, whom he loved at first sight.
The story might have ended with the father’s refusal, but the two parties were extremely stubborn, and their stubbornness and clinging to each other led them to return to each other, and they began exchanging messages of passion and love, in the absence of the father, for another seven years, even if the poet was invited to participate in the Al-Murbad Poetry Festival in Iraq in 1969, he narrates to a stunned audience chapters from his touching story with Bilqis.
The Iraqi president at the time, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, heard the identity of the master that Nizar Qabbani was talking regarding, and he knew regarding the story that brought them together with all its extreme national and political connotations and dimensions. Taqa, both of whom are distinguished poets, to propose to her under his personal name, Nizar Qabbani. Father Jamil Al-Rawi had no choice but to agree to the request of the delegates, and the wedding ceremony took place very quickly.
The duo chose to reside in Beirut, because it is the city that resembles his poems, and accommodates, despite its difficult circumstances, his bold ideas and his satisfactory attachment to freedom.
Marriage of Balqis and Nizar Qabbani
For 13 years, the creative poet and his wife, who is 16 years younger than him, lived a life full of anxiety and destruction, according to the events the country was going through.
Many questions were asked by the audience, trying to find out the real reason behind their ability to preserve their marriage, before Bilqis’ death in the Iraqi embassy explosion, so that everyone around them confirmed that Bilqis managed to suppress feelings of jealousy, which another woman who entered Nizar Qabbani’s life might not hide, especially With a man around this many women.
Despite her beauty and subtle intelligence, what Bilqis was able to do in reality was to control the feelings of jealousy, and not to not feel them at all. That is why Nizar wrote in it a poem, “I bear witness that there is no woman but you,” in the tenth year of their marriage, and he said: “I bear witness that No woman has mastered the game except you, and you have endured my folly for ten years as you have endured, and you have endured my madness as you have endured.”
After a period of her departure, the Palestinian President at the time, Yasser Arafat, surprised Nizar Qabbani, telling him that his late wife had received military training in the ranks of the Palestinian military in 1968, one year before their marriage, and that she had placed herself with some of her Iraqi companions at the disposal of the Palestinian revolution.
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