Arab Folktales
Title | Arab Folktales PDF eBook |
Author | Inea Bushnaq |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 486 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Tales |
ISBN |
Folktales from the Arabian Peninsula
Title | Folktales from the Arabian Peninsula PDF eBook |
Author | Nadia Jameel Taibah |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 183 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
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.
Arabic Folktales
Title | Arabic Folktales PDF eBook |
Author | Rodhan Al- Khalidi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-03 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN | 9781529506006 |
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.
Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel
Title | Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814327104 |
Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel is a collection of twenty-eight tales with insight into the Arab culture by Raphael Patai.
Speak, Bird, Speak Again
Title | Speak, Bird, Speak Again PDF eBook |
Author | Ibrahim Muhawi |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 443 |
Release | 1989-02-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0520062922 |
A collection of Palestinian Arab folktales which reflect the culture and highlights the role of women in the society.
Types of the Folktale in the Arab World
Title | Types of the Folktale in the Arab World PDF eBook |
Author | Hasan M. El-Shamy |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 1302 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780253344472 |
The only demographically oriented tale-type index for folktales of the Arab world
Pearls on a Branch
Title | Pearls on a Branch PDF eBook |
Author | Najla Jraissaty Khoury |
Publisher | Archipelago |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-03-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0914671898 |
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.