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- 1 2 Kanafani, Ghassan (1987). The Lover (in Arabic). Arab Research Foundation.
- ↑ "The Lover". A5dr.com.
- 1 2 "The novel "The Lover" .. the stories that were completed by their incompleteness". Enab Baladi.