Nizar Qabbani was born in Damascus on March 21, 1923. He served in syria`a diplomtic corp for more than 20 years(1945-66), but settled for political reasons. He died on April 30, 1998 and buried in Damascus. Qabbani was revered by generations of Arabs for his sensual and romantic verse where it seemed that women were his main theme and inspiration. His poetry uses everyday language. Gamal el-Ghitanti, the Egyptian novelist and editor of the weekly News of Literature, praised Qabbani as having been "by any measure a great Arab poet who made a big effort to make his poetry understandable to all people and not only to the elite." Since the beginning of his career and up to the 1967 war, only few poems with sociopolitical themes were written by the poet. But the June setback in 1967 circumscribes Qabbani`s shift from love themes to political ones. Qabbani believed the defeat was a shameful event and blames the Arab rulers by saying that they have denied the Arab people any chance of expressing their opinions freely and acting as a spontaneous body in a free society. Qabbani`s superior achievement is that he not only attacked political coercion, but aimed his well-honed pen at the most sacrosanct taboos in the Arab traditional culture: the sexual. He called for the liberation of both body and soul from the repressive injunctions imposed upon them throughout the centuries,