available at The Middle Eastern Bookstore [and made to order]
“Love is a prisoner in the Middle East, and I want to free it.”
–Nizar Qabbani
This notebook bears the poetry of Nizar Qabbani, a Syrian poet from Damascus who wrote about the pain of love, the erotic, and freedom for the Arab woman. Qabbani held a deep reverence for women and saw them as the source of love, salvation, and power. He resisted the conservatism of his people, and insisted on the liberation of body and soul from the social laws of his time. Qabbani rejected the secrecy of love.“Love me and say it out loud,” he wrote. “I refuse that you love me mutely.”
His verses were written using the traditional tools of calligraphy: bamboo, reed, and ink. On the first page of your notebook, you will find the english translation to one of the verses from the from the poem written on the front cover.
Sincerely,
available at The Middle Eastern Bookstore [and made to order]
“Love is a prisoner in the Middle East, and I want to free it.”
–Nizar Qabbani
This notebook bears the poetry of Nizar Qabbani, a Syrian poet from Damascus who wrote about the pain of love, the erotic, and freedom for the Arab woman. Qabbani held a deep reverence for women and saw them as the source of love, salvation, and power. He resisted the conservatism of his people, and insisted on the liberation of body and soul from the social laws of his time. Qabbani rejected the secrecy of love.“Love me and say it out loud,” he wrote. “I refuse that you love me mutely.”
His verses were written using the traditional tools of calligraphy: bamboo, reed, and ink. On the first page of your notebook, you will find the english translation to one of the verses from the from the poem written on the front cover.
Sincerely,