The ego and the other in the poetry of Nizar Qabbani

Abstract

This article aims to shed light on the issue of identity, the ego and the Other in contemporary Arab poetry through poetic models of one of the prominent Arab poets, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. I will try to make the research paper practical because the issues of the I and the Other in philosophy and criticism have been exhausted by researchers. Through the study, we reached a number of results, perhaps the most important of which is that the I in Nizar’s poetry is transcendent in some flirtatious poems, and submissive in other poems.