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By Najla Khoury,Inea Bushnaq

A selection of 30 conventional Syrian and Lebanese folktales infused with new lifestyles via Lebanese girls, accrued by means of Najla Khoury.

While civil conflict raged in Lebanon, Najla Khoury traveled with a theater troupe, placing on exhibits in marginal parts the place electrical energy used to be a luxurious, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and remoted villages. Their performs have been mostly according to oral stories, and he or she combed the rustic looking for tales. a long time later, she selected 100 tales from one of the most well-liked and released them in Arabic in 2014, precisely as she acquired them, from the mouths of the storytellers who advised them as they'd heard them once they have been childrens from their mom and dad and grandparents. Out of the hundred tales released in Arabic, Inea Bushnaq and Najla Khoury selected thirty for this book.

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