Nizar Qabbani's Attitude towards Arab-Israeli Peace Treaties: An Analysis of his Poetic Contents

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the attitude of the Arab poet Nizar Qabbani towards peace treaties with Israel. It examines a number of poems in which the poet shows his rejection of these treaties. Using a discourse analysis approach, the study explores the poet's attitudes toward these treaties and the poetic imagery he uses to express his rejection. The study concludes that Qabbani’s attitude is marked by his rejection of such treaties, and he expressed his anger towards the Arab leaders who signed them and on the Arab nations who did not object their signature. The content analysis of Qabbani’s poetry reveals that it is characterized by directness and constructiveness in some verses. It is also marked by its distance from the simple and compound images and from the aesthetics that are always found in his romantic poetry.

Analisis Puisi Uhibbuki Jiddan Karya Nizar Qabbani: Kajian Psikoanalisa Sigmund Freud

“…Uhibbuki Jiddan juga dikenal dengan judul Al-Hubb Al-Mustahil. Puisi ini menceritakan tentang sosok lakilaki yang sangat menyimpan rasa cinta mendalam kepada kekasihnya, dirangkai dengan alur mundur menceritakan sosok Ana yang begitu berusahanya untuk bisa mendapatkan balasan cinta dari sang pujaan hati yang dikemas dengan rangkaian kata yang begitu indah (Almazaidah, 2019;Hidayani & Arfan, 2021;Zuhdy, 2012;Zuhdy & Masadi, 2016). Puisi tersebut merupakan karya dari Nizar Qabbani penyair yang masyhur di kalangan pecinta sastra Arab dengan genre romantisme (Almazaidah, 2019).…”

Racial militarism and civilizational anxiety at the imperial encounter: From metropole to the postcolonial state

“…Regardless of the huge military and economic disparities between the two sides that explained the outcome, old tropes about disorganized Arab armies, lacking in physical strength and the loyalty of a truly civilized nation, were reinforced. The humiliation felt by the Syrian army was exacerbated by the fact that much of the discourse of shame came from within, particularly from disillusioned Syrian intelligentsia, artists and poets (see Almazaidah, 2019). Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, whose poems were promptly banned by the Syrian regime, famously spearheaded this internal criticism in 'Footnotes to the Book of Al-Naksa' with these words:…”