10 Facts About Nizar Kabbani

Nizar Kabbani later studied law at Damascus University, which was called Syrian University until 1958.

Nizar Kabbani graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1945.

Nizar Kabbani wrote extensively during these years and his poems from China were some of his finest.

Nizar Kabbani continued to work in diplomacy until he tendered his resignation in 1966.

Nizar Kabbani expressed his grief in an exceptionally moving poem titled Balqees.

The latter, Sabah Qabbani, was the most famous after Nizar Kabbani, becoming director of Syrian radio and TV in 1960 and Syria's ambassador to the United States in the 1980s.

Nizar Kabbani's father had a chocolate factory; he helped support fighters resisting the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and was imprisoned many times for his views, greatly affecting the upbringing of Nizar into a revolutionary in his own right.

Nizar Kabbani's daughter Hadba, born in 1947, was married twice, and lived in London until her death in April 2009.

Nizar Kabbani was moving between Geneva and Paris, eventually settling in London, where he spent the last 15 years of his life.

At the age of 75, Nizar Kabbani Qabbani died in London on 30 April 1998 of a heart attack.