Nizar Qabbani, Jasmine grandparents ... a literary and artistic festival commemorating the great poet of Damascus

Damascus-Sana

Loyalty and gratitude from Damascus, Al-Yasmine and the Ministry of Culture to the great poet Nizar Qabbani, a festival was launched in the Arab Cultural Center in the field, which celebrates this creativity in terms of composition, photography, music, heritage and cinema.

The festival, titled “Nizar Qabbani, The Alphabet of Jasmine” on its first day included a plastic exhibition in which dozens of artists presented portraits of the late poet and art symbols from his family, such as Abu Khalil al-Qabbani, in addition to the paintings of his ancient home and the Damascene sword that he sings and everything related to Nazar through seeing the participating artists .

He also screened a film about the poet’s history and his association with Damascus, Jasmine until his departure in 1998, prepared by the journalist Ilham Sultan, in addition to readings from his poems by the journalist Jamal al-Jaish.

The opening included a musical performance by Friends of Law, Bakra Elna, led by the artist Dima Mawazini, and another for children of the Solhi El-Wadi Institute, led by artist Sumer Al-Najjar, during which the talented Abdel Rahim Al-Halabi presented two songs from the poems of the poet Qabbani Love Me Without a Contract and I hate it.

Participation in the plastic exhibition, Reem Qubtan, stated in a statement to SANA that the poet Qabbani is a Damascene symbol who sings in prose and poetry in his city, pointing to the great relationship between poetry and formation. We all love it because it is the heaven we are looking for in ourselves.

Wasim Mobaide, director of culture in Damascus, stated that the poet Qabbani is the jasmine and the knight of glory, and he is the one who conveyed the Damascene jasmine to the whole world with his poems, aromas, and the beauty of his image.

Fine artist Rasha Ahmed, who participated in two portraits belonging to the Expressionist School, pointed out that Nizar means a lot to her as a female, as the artist Amna Selim showed that she participated in a painting that she drew in Arabic calligraphy of the Damascene sword through the verse of "Your love, Barada, like the sword inhabits me."

The plastic arts Izzat Al-Kahhal participated in a painting that I collected from Nizar's old house before the restoration, as part of the heritage of Damascus, because people are always looking for the past and what links it to the place from nostalgia to the apricot tree and the naranj as part of our memory.

Artist Muhammad Khaddour shared two portraits of the poet Qabbani with bullets, with the introduction of the Damascene house into the painting, indicating that Qabbani, according to him, is a legend in the world of poetry.

The journalist and poet Jamal Al-Jaysh saw in Nizar a rare and unique poetic case with his own, as he occupied an area that only he occupied and was able to open new horizons for poetry and to fly in wide spaces.

He spoke in the language of women, the homeland and the earth, and sang warmth, nostalgia and intimacy.

Bilal Ahmad