JEDDAH: Romantic love, a recurrent theme amid the explosion of popular Arabic literature of recent decades, has been present in Arabic poetic tradition since the earliest works were preserved for posterity in the written form. Long before the advent of writing, it was common for Arabian tribesmen to impart important information to other members using oral poetry. The
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