Republic of Love

By far the most popular poet of the Arab World, popular in the true sense of the word. The late Nizar Kabbani's selected poems appear here in English for the first time. So popular is he that one of his poems is the greatest love song in the Arab world, recorded by the legendary Egyptian singer Um Khaslsoum and played on virtually every taxi's radio across the Middle East.

Part 1 The Poems; Chapter 1 Painting With Words; Chapter 2 To A Saint; Chapter 3 To My Student; Chapter 4 In Spite; Chapter 5 Love Of 1994; Chapter 6 Give Me Love, Turn Me Green; Chapter 7 Snow; Chapter 8 Daily Love Exercises; Chapter 9 Does He Think?; Chapter 10 My Angry Cat; Chapter 11 Words; Chapter 12 The Play; Chapter 13 Only With Me; Chapter 14 The Evil Poem; Chapter 15 A Very Realistic Poem; Chapter 16 The Last Declaration Of King Schariar; Chapter 17 Lolita; Chapter 18 You Want; Chapter 19 To A Hireling; Chapter 20 A Letter To An Anonymous Man; Chapter 21 Pregnant; Chapter 22 Vessels Of Pus; Chapter 23 The Arsonist Of Rome; Chapter 24 Clown; Chapter 25 A Voice From The Harem; Chapter 26 A Bedside Sermon Behind The Closed Doors; Chapter 27 The Runners