The latter, Sabah Qabbani, was the most famous after Nizar, becoming director of Syrian radio and TV in 1960 and Syria's ambassador to the United States in the 1980s. Qabbani had two sisters, Wisal and Haifa he also had three brothers: Mu'taz, Rashid, and Sabah. The Qabbani family was of Turkish origin and came from Konya, Turkey their original family name was Ak Biyik, meaning "white moustache" in the Turkish language. 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.Ījlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book. 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. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in law in 1945. He later studied law at the Damascus University, which was called Syrian University until 1958. The school was owned and run by his father's friend, Ahmad Munif al-Aidi. He studied at the national Scientific College School in Damascus between 19. Qabbani was raised in Mi'thnah Al-Shahm, one of the neighborhoods of Old Damascus. Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family.