Pearls on a Branch

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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. Free Download Books Pearls on a Branch by Najla Khoury – kino-fada.fr Pearls on a Branch Arab Stories Told by Women in Lebanon Today by Najla Khoury is a collection of Middle Eastern stories While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Jraissaty 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 a Pearls on a Branch Arab Stories Told by Women in Lebanon Today by Najla Khoury is a collection of Middle Eastern stories While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Jraissaty 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, ...I enjoyed this collection of stories very much Reading the introduction prior to the stories is what I would recommend I m a person who usually saves an intro until I ve finished a book due to spoilers and wanting to form my own opinions, but in this case, it provided a lot of context and understanding of the texts I was about to encounter These stories were collected from actual women living in Lebanon and Syria, and Najla Khoury often visited the women multiple times, because she found that I enjoyed this collection of stories very much Reading the introduction prior to the stories is what I would recommend I m a person who usually saves an intro until I ve finished a book due to spoilers and wanting to form my own opinions, but in this case, it provided a lot of context and understanding of the texts I was about to encounter These stories were collected from actual women living in Lebanon and Syria, and Najla Khoury often visited the women multiple times, because she found that the telling of the sto...Pearls on a Branch Arab Stories Told by Women in Lebanon Today by Najla Jraissaty Khoury and translated by Inea Bushnaq is a collection of 30 Arab folktales transmitted orally through the generations by Arab women Khoury traveled in Lebanon during the civil war, collecting stories told by women in women only gatherings The folktales share many of the characteristics of Western fairy tales with some cultural variations Pomegranate Seed on a Platter and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves resembles Pearls on a Branch Arab Stories Told by Women in Lebanon Today by Najla Jraissaty Khoury and translated by Inea Bushnaq is a collection of 30 Arab folktales transmitted orally through the generations by Arab women Khoury traveled in Lebanon during the civil war, collecting stories told by women ...It happened, or maybe it didn tThis collection of Lebanese and Syrian folk tales begins with an introduction from the author explaining how she came to record them During the Lebanese civil war, Khoury travelled with a theatre group that put on shows for those dispossessed or marginalised by the conflict As she travelled, she began to ask local women to tell her the stories they were told as children so that she could adapt them for the theatre company She speaks very interestingly of how It happened, or maybe it didn tThis collection of Lebanese and Syrian folk tales begins with an introduction from the author explaining how she came to record them During the Lebanese civil war, Khoury travelled with a theatre group that put on shows for those dispossessed or marginalised by the conflict As she travelled, she began to ask local women to tell her the stories they were told as children so that she could adapt them for the theatre company She speaks very interestingly of how she went about the t...Seeof my book reviews on my blog, Literary FlitsThe story of how the arabic original of this book came to exist is as interesting as the tales it contains By listening to many women across Lebanon between 1975 and 1990, Khoury endeavoured to record their traditional folktales and how they were told, thereby preserving an important part of the...I would prefer sitting around a fire, listening to elders I had the great privilege of doing that in many African villages, but those are bygone days So, 2nd best is to read these wonderful, bawdy, funny, universal tales I ll keep the book bedside, and when I need a reminder about how life is, I ll check on th... Pearls on a Branch brings together a collection of thirty stories, which Najla Khoury collected over several years of research into Lebanese folktales The tales collected here have been transcribed exactly as they were told to her There are overlaps of themes and tropes, and it is fascinating to ...A fairy tale collection, collected very recently.In the foreword, the collector discusses how she got these tales from the women when the children were safely in school Some contain bawdy elements.A wide variety of tales, the context showing when many a heroine s rivals are the hero s first cousin who naturally object to being passed over wh...Every country has its own folklore, stories from ancient past handed down from generation to generation As with all oral traditions, similar stories with a single origin are spread over a wide district, changing along with the ever evolving culture and circumstances of the storytellers themselves Most of the time, the differences are only in the details The thirty translated stories in Pearls on a Branch are a window into the lives of Arabic women, selected from a larger repository of Arabic Every country has its own folklore, stories from ancient past handed down from generation to generation As with all oral traditions, similar stories with a single origin are spread over a wide district, changing along with the ever evolving culture and circumstances of the storytellers themselves Most of the time, the differences are only in the details The thirty translated stories in Pearls on a Branch are a window into the lives of Arabic women, selected from a larger repository of Arabic tales recorded and transcribed by Najla Jraissaty Khoury As with all fairy tales and folklore, the stories range from the almost mundane to the extremely fantastical, including animals that speak and classic forms of poo...This is a collection of 30 Syrian and Lebanese folktales, told by women and collected and translated by women as well I have always loved fairy tales, so I was really interested in this book I was surprised to see how some of them are very much like some of the Western tales, for example one of them was a different version of Snow White with Ali Baba and the 40 thieves instead of 7 dwarves.I enjoyed discovering the folktales of another culture I don t think I had read tales from the Arab This is a collection of 30 Syrian and Lebanese folktales, told by women and collected and translated by women as well I have always lo...

Pearls on a Branch
  • English
  • 27 August 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • Najla Khoury
  • Pearls on a Branch