The music of one of the Arab world's greatest divas is still enthralling audiences in Paris, 50 years after her death.

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While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning still remains ...