We seem to speak through imagined funerals fairly often. Our love-words stage tiny tragedies; everyday phrases that say we can only claim love when it’s at the brink of loss. It’s a linguistic lineage that runs deep, positioning romantic love as a tradition of wound, wonder, ecstasy, agony, rise, and fated comedown. It’s where Qays … Continue reading My Favourite Neuroses: Mapping the Ecstasy and Comedown of Romance Across the Arab Love Song