Nizar Qabbani — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Nizar Qabbani; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth at Damascus on 22 March 1923 (its lead and infobox; the Arabic and Urdu articles and Wikidata give 21 March), his law degree from Damascus University in 1945, his diplomatic postings and resignation in 1966, his first collection 'The Brunette Told Me' (1942), the killing of his wife Balqis al-Rawi in the 1981 Beirut embassy bombing, and his death at London on 30 April 1998, recording his wish to be buried in Damascus. It makes no statement of his religion.