Nizar Qabbani
In 1956, he was married to Maha Naamani, the niece of Said al-Ghazzi, former Prime Minister of Syria. He is a brother of the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, and the father of the writer Rana Kabbani. Qabbani's great uncle, Abu Khalil Qabbani, was one of the leading innovators in Arab dramatic literature.