Damascus-Sana
The texts of the poets participating in the Nizar Qabbani festival varied the alphabet of jasmine, which was set up by the Directorate of Culture in the field of culture, between the two halves, tafil, and prose, and most of the poems addressed and imitated the great poet.
Poet Helena Atallah recited a poem entitled Rabee 'al-Sham in the style of the two halves, using the abundant sea that suited the poem's theme to combine the love of Damascus and the qualities that Qabbani had, while the poet Muhammad Khalid al-Khader addressed him with a poem from the Whole Sea in which he talked about the concerns of culture and the need to confront the cultural invasion and American liberalism New and normalization, using the meme as a letter to conclude the verses of the poem.
As for the poet Salih Hawari, he presented social texts in which he expressed human suffering in addition to concern for family bonding and cohesion that leads to building the country according to a theme balanced with the movement of music.
The poet Wissam Rahal opposed the Arab poet Omar bin Kulthum and simulated it with poetic verses to embody social and humanitarian issues in which Nizar wrote and used the abundant sea that the pre-Islamic poet used in his poetic commentary.
The texts of the poet Bisan Abu Khaled varied, describing the heroism of the children of stones and the horror that they left in the hearts of the Zionist occupation forces, in addition to another poem in which the poet Qabbani inherited and used suggestion and connotation to express what she wanted to reach.
As for the poet and physician Nizar Bani al-Marjeh, his poem prevailed over the emotional and human condition, then his complaint about Kabbani broadcasted in it many of the worries that we live in our current time, relying on music, language and objective balance.
The director of the media festival, the poet Ali Al-Dandah, presented in his interventions a description of the participating poets and glimpses of their literary biography, their books, and the nature of their poetic texts.
The director of culture, Wasim Moubayed considered that the festival is a memorial to a great Syrian poet, whose memory is supposed to be an initiation of the poets ’inspirations and feelings in the service of their national and humanitarian causes.
In a statement to SANA, Head of the Cultural Center, Leila Saab, indicated the need to shed light on writers and poets who served national, humanitarian and social causes, such as our late poet, who was one of the first to write in resistant literature.
Shatha Hammoud