Folktales from the Arabian Peninsula
Tales of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
Author:
Illustrator:
Nadia Jameel Taibah and Margaret Read MacDonald
Tales from the Arabian Peninsula, retold by Margaret Read MacDonald. Tales from Saudi Arabia retold by Nadia Jameel Taibah
Categories
Story origins: Oman
Arabic Cultures
Story origins: Kuwait
Story origins: Saudi Arabia
Folktale Collections
Editions
Hardcover
2015
978-1-59158-529-9
Hardcover
Libraries Unlimited
Hardcover
115p.
Quotes
Taibah and Macdonald present readers with a collection of traditional folktales from throughout the Arabian Peninsula countries of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and The United Arab Emirates. The collection contains stories that represent the great cultural diversity of the peninsula and footnotes that relate the relationship of each story to folklore around the world. Several of the stories included have never been translated and published in English before. Margaret Read Macdonald is with the King County Library System, Washington. Nadia Jameel Taibah is a faculty member of King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia. (© Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
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Awards
Storytelling World Best Storytelling Collection
2018