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The defeat marked a qualitative shift in Qabbani's work – from erotic love poems to poems with overt political themes of rejectionism and resistance.

The 1967 Six-Day War also influenced his poetry and his lament for the Arab cause. The city of Damascus remained a powerful muse in his poetry, most notably in the Jasmine Scent of Damascus. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” He is known as one of the most feminist and progressive intellectuals of his time. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. When asked whether he was a revolutionary, the poet answered: “Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. When Qabbani was 15, his sister, who was 25 at the time, committed suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love. Ajlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book. To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend of his father and a leading nationalist leader in Syria. It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus. While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me, which he published in 1942. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1945. He later studied law at Damascus University, which was called Syrian University until 1958. The school was owned and run by his father's friend, Ahmad Munif al-Aidi.

Qabbani was raised in Mi'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus and studied at the National Scientific College School in Damascus between 19. His mother, Faiza Akbik, is of Turkish descent. She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family.