These faces are engraved in people's minds as names, and we strive to consecrate them in their visual memory as well.Īnd I have an ambition to collect them in a book and increase the number to honor and remind the giants of culture and literature. Idlibi continued, “It is beautiful to transform the pioneers of literature and culture into visual texts drawn with modern technologies. On the other hand, all the paintings were painted in digital form, and this is also the first time that I display digital-drawn pictures and not on paper or canvas. The resulting paintings express the personality from the inside and outside, by studying the psychological dimension of it, not just drawing the face. On the one hand, it was an important opportunity for me to work in the field of drawing realistic faces. He said: “My participation with Dubai Culture in this initiative is a new addition to my artistic career. Rafia Ghobash, and the writer Muhammad Al-Murr, and other faces of local, Arab and international culture.įor his part, Hassan Idlibi expressed his happiness with the transfer of the exhibition to the Al-Safa Library, in order to obtain its right and be available to members of society, and for school students to be invited to become acquainted with a number of symbols of culture and creativity in the Arab world and the UAE in particular, wishing that the exhibition will gain the approval of the public. The “Cultural Faces” exhibition, which is housed in the exhibitions corner in the Al Safa Library, celebrates cultural icons, including the poet Sultan bin Ali Al Owais, the poet and researcher Ahmed Rashid Thani, the poet Habib Al Sayegh, the poet Mahmoud Darwish, the writer Nobel Naguib Mahfouz, the poet Nizar Qabbani, and the writer Ghazi Al-Qusaibi, Dr. The authority confirmed that the move comes within the framework of its efforts to make culture available everywhere, and for all segments of society, and reflects the role played by the Al-Safa Library for Art and Design as an exemplary incubator for creativity and culture in the emirate. As well as enjoying the creative paintings by the Syrian artist Hassan Idlibi celebrating the faces of a group of creative people. The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has revealed the organization of the "Cultural Faces" exhibition, in which the Authority participated in this year's edition of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature on a permanent basis in the Al Safa Library for Art and Design, to allow the public to get acquainted with an elite group of culture pioneers in The Emirates and the World.ĭubai Culture seeks, through the permanent exhibition that includes 20 cultural faces, to enable members of the community who did not have the opportunity to visit the exhibition stand during the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature last February, to embark on an innovative experience with which to enrich their knowledge about a number of Arab and foreign pioneers of the word. The exhibition is housed in the exhibition corner in the Al-Safa Library. They remained married till her death in a bombing in Beruit.An exhibition celebrating symbols of the wordĢ0 cultural faces permanently decorate the Al Safa Library His first wife was his cousin Zahra Aqbiq, with whom he had two children – a son Tawfiq, and a daughter named Hadba.Īfter Zahra’s death, Nizar Qabbani married again to Balqis al-Rawi in 1973. He lost his life to heart failure on April 30, 1998, at 75 years of age. His health had been falling fast, and in late 1997, he was critically ill. Deathįollowing the death of his wife, Nizar Qabbani had become disillusioned with Beruit, and he left the city to settle in London finally. Qabbani’s last poem was Alphabet of Jasmine.
A poem for Balqis was written in memory of his wife. He wrote many great poems in this period such as 100 Love Letters, I love you, and the Rest is yet to come, May You Be My Love for Another Year, I write the History of a Woman Like So, The Lover’s Dictionary and A poem for Balqis.
It is his later career for which Nizar Qabbani is most famous.
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