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Author: Inea Bushnaq
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Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel is a collection of twenty-eight tales with insight into the Arab culture by Raphael Patai.

Author: Rodhan Al- Khalidi
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ISBN: 9781529506006
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This feast of Middle Eastern folklore from an Iraqi storyteller is paired with vibrant cut-paper art. The twenty fables and folktales in this illustrated storybook have taken a long journey. Many have roots that stretch across Europe, Asia, and Africa, but when writer and gatherer of tales Rodaan Al Galidi learned them in his homeland of Iraq, it was as Arabic folktales and as part of the Arabic storytelling tradition. When he migrated to the Netherlands, he shaped twenty of those tales into his debut book for children, which was translated to English by Laura Watkinson. Filled with wisdom about love and acceptance, and warnings against folly, these elegantly translated stories of donkeys and roosters, kings, sheikhs, and paupers are exquisitely illustrated by cut-paper artist Geertje Aalders. Beautifully packaged, Arabic Folktales is a rich and varied introduction to the world of Middle Eastern folklore.

Author: Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253344472
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1302

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The only demographically oriented tale-type index for folktales of the Arab world

Author: Nadia Jameel Taibah
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
ISBN: 1591585295
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This unique and diverse selection of traditional folktales from the countries of the Arabian Peninsula appeals to a broad audience, ranging from storytellers and educators to folklorists and scholars. A unique compilation of stories, Folktales from the Arabian Peninsula includes tales from seven countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Coauthored by a renowned folklorist and a professor of education who recalls some of these poignant tales from her own childhood, the book opens with a discussion of the Arabian Peninsula that introduces each country and discusses its terrain, peoples, and current situation to provide important background information. The engaging stories that follow will serve elementary, junior high, and high school librarians as well as public librarians, professional storytellers, and folklorists. The tales themselves—many of which have never been published in English language children's collections—are appropriate for readers grades five and up.

Author: Ibrahim Muhawi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520062922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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A collection of Palestinian Arab folktales which reflect the culture and highlights the role of women in the society.

Author: Jilali El Koudia
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco and the soul of its people. In an enlightening introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear that storytelling, born of memory and oral tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and electronic media.

Author: Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814347754
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 705

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Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered two criteria: that the tale originates from or at least was transmitted by a Middle Eastern source, and that it was recorded from a Western narrator’s oral performance in the course of the nineteenth or twentieth century. The rationale behind these restrictive definitions is predicated on Marzolph’s main concern with the long-lasting effect that some of the "Oriental" narratives exercised in Western popular tradition—those tales that have withstood the test of time. Marzolph focuses on the originally "Oriental" tales that became part and parcel of modern Western oral tradition. Since antiquity, the "Orient" constitutes the quintessential Other vis-à-vis the European cultures. While delineation against this Other served to define and reassure the Self, the "Orient" also constituted a constant source of fascination, attraction, and inspiration. Through oral retellings, numerous tales from Muslim tradition became an integral part of European oral and written tradition in the form of learned treatises, medieval sermons, late medieval fabliaux, early modern chapbooks, contemporary magazines, and more. In present times, when national narcissisms often acquire the status of strongholds delineating the Us against the Other, it is imperative to distinguish, document, visualize, and discuss the extent to which the West is not only indebted to the Muslim world but also shares common features with Muslim narrative tradition. 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.

Author: Elena N. Grand
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977940254
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Arabic Folktales: Folklore and Legends they are like smoke, wrap around and absorb you entirely. You dissolve in this atmosphere, you want only this atmosphere to surround you. You can not break apart and break apart, despite the fact that it is just a collection of Arabic fstories. Want to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Arabic culture, magic, incredible adventures, deadly danger and marvelous wealth? Arabic Folktales will give you all this. In each of them you will find a lesson and morality, get acquainted with the legendary heroes. Arabic Folktales: Folklore and Legends contains 13 folktales from the Orient: The Cobbler Astrologer The Legend of the Terrestrial Paradise of Sheddád, the Son of 'A'd The Tomb of Noosheerwân Ameen and the Ghool The Relations of Ssidi Kur -The Adventures of the Rich Youth -The Adventures of the Beggar's Son -The Adventures of Massang -The Magician with the Swine's Head -The History of Sunshine and his Brother -The Wonderful Man who overcame the Chan -The Bird-man -The Painter and the Wood-carver -The Stealing of the Heart -The Man and his Wife -Of the Maiden Ssuwarandari The Two Cats Legend of Dhurrumnath The Traveller's Adventure The Seven Stages of Roostem The Man who never Laughed The Fox and the Wolf The Shepherd and the Jogie The Perfidious Vizier Arabic Folktales- sample of genuinely folk works, very different from "1001 nights." For a wide range of adult readers. Go on an extraordinary adventure with the Arabic Literature!

Author: Najla Jraissaty Khoury
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A collection of 30 traditional Syrian and Lebanese folktales infused with new life by Lebanese women, collected by Najla Khoury. While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Khoury traveled with a theater troupe, putting on shows in marginal areas where electricity was a luxury, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and isolated villages. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories. Many years later, she chose one hundred stories from among the most popular and published them in Arabic in 2014, exactly as she received them, from the mouths of the storytellers who told them as they had heard them when they were children from their parents and grandparents. Out of the hundred stories published in Arabic, Inea Bushnaq and Najla Khoury chose thirty for this book.