![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Due to its challenge of the hegemonic narratives disseminated by the defeated regimes, Qabbani's counter war rhetoric was censored and excluded from school curricula and Arab press. Denouncing a network of stagnant institutions that gave rise to the war, Qabbani criticized the Arab official systems questioning Arab culture and traditions. As a suppressed tradition of poetic texts production representing the consciousness of the contemporary Arab intellectual, Qabbani's poetic discourse defended the individual against the tyranny and persecution perpetuated by tyrannical Arab governments. Charged with the need to bear witness and responsibility for war, the poems, analyzed in this paper, constitute one of the first extensive narratives of trauma and defeat in modern Arabic literature. This paper critically examines the war poetry of the prominent Syrian poet, Nizar Qabbani, in order to re-historicize the Six-Day War (1967) narrative and dismantle the myths that provided the sparks for the war.
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