Pearls On A Branch - Tales from the Arab World Told by WomenPaperback
Pearls On A Branch - Tales from the Arab World Told by WomenPaperback A collection of 30 traditional Syrian and Lebanese folktales infused with new life by Lebanese women, collected by Najla…
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Pearls On A Branch - Tales from the Arab World Told by WomenPaperback
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. 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. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories.
Out of the hundred stories published in Arabic, Inea Bushnaq and Najla Khoury chose thirty for this
Plays from the Arab World
Tales from the Ant World
Told by the Ayah
Tragedy on the Branch Line
Pearls on a String
Artgeist Bird on a Branch