What better way to teach Arabic to children than to use songs, games and stories? A number of online initiatives now exist to help parents do exactly that What better way to teach Arabic for children ...

AMMAN — For those who want to revisit the tales their grandparents used to tell them about ghouls, witches and charming princes or discover Arab folktales for the first time, a book officially ...

On its cover, "Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange" is described as "the first English translation of a medieval Arab fantasy collection." First discovered in 1933 in Istanbul, in a unique ...

THE FOLKTALE IS the most unpretentious and democratic form of literature—a story that everyone is free to tell and embellish because it belongs to no one in particular. In the early nineteenth century ...

DOHA: The Arab and German Tales exhibition opened at the Qatar National Library (QNL), yesterday in the presence of H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice-Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation ...

Beyond the occasional appearance of a genie, something magical happened at the Lenfest Center of the Arts from Feb. 6 to Feb. 9. Ghina Fawaz, SoA ’25, conjured the power of storytelling while ...

King Shahriyar and his brother King Shahzaman suspect their suffering to be unique in this world. Their wives have slept with other men, and this drives them to grief, to madness—Shahzaman skewers his ...

Drawing on the mythical Old West, familiar European stories, and recently translated Middle Eastern tales, these stories provide a rich sample of what awaits us in the world of fairy tales. Like many ...