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Love, poetry and pan-Arabism: The broken dream of Balqis and Nizar

Every year, Arab scholars commemorate the 1981 assassination of Balqis al-Rawi, wife of poet Nizar Qabbani. He stopped writing about love - and the Arab world was never the same
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