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Updated media and translation The lyrics are from a Nizar Qabbani poen. The original translation was very hastily done, but I've updated it now. Kazem el-Saher - Love School Loving you taught me how to be sad I've been in need for ages for a woman to make me sad For a women for me to cry in her arms like a sparrow For a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal Loving you, milady, taught me my worst habits It taught me to open my cup at night a thousand times And try herbal medicine and knock on the doors of fortune-tellers It taught me to leave my house to comb the sidewalks And follow your face with the rains in the headlights of cars The light of your eyes is millions of stars Oh woman, you made the world spin Oh my pain! Loving you, milady, made me enter the cities of sadness Cities of sadness that I had not entered before you I didn't ever know that tears make you human That someone without sadness is a vestige of a human Loving you taught me to act like...

Updated media Abdel Halim Hafez is a music legend in Egypt and aside from Om Kalthoum is probably the most prominent musician. This song is from a poem written by Nizar Qabbani. The title is literally translated as "cup reader," referring to the act of reading fortunes from the grains left in the bottom of a cup of Turkish coffee. These lyrics are the words to the poem itself and not word for word how they were performed by Abdel Halim. This translation is by Natalie Smolenski. Abdel Halim Hafez - Reader of Fortunes She sat with fear in her eyes Contemplating the overturned cup. She said: My son, do not be sad. Love is written for you. My son, he who dies for the religion of the beloved Has died a martyr. Your cup is a terrifying world. You life: travels and wars. You will love often, my son. You will adore all the women of the world, And return as the king who has been conquered. In your life, my son, there is a woman. Her eyes – Praise be to Him who is worshipped! Her mouth...