A quarterly specialized journal
The Message Of Folklore from Bahrain To The World

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Women Folklore In Popular Literature
Issue 11

The issue of the woman folklore has attracted a considerable attention among the researchers of Arabic oral traditions, primarily in the second half of the...

Forgotten lullabies of the Tunisian city of Monastir: A documentary music study
Issue 65

All communities, irrespective of their history or level of development, have singing as an integral part of their musical tradition. This is due to the fact...

Heritage Museums of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula
Issue 35

In the Gulf countries, people have gone to great lengths to preserve material heritage that dates from the time before the discovery of oil. After collecting...

Folklore: A language that civilisations use to communicate
Issue 40

Folklore is oral cultural heritage that is transmitted from generation to generation by oral, written, or recorded means. It includes music, literature, drama,...

The 100th anniversary of the first Arabic book on folklore, ‘Arabic in Sudan’ (1923–2023)
Issue 63

The ongoing revolution in Sudan, which started in 2018, has kept the Sudanese media, as well as cultural and academic circles distracted from an important...

The Culture of Shammakh Village in South Jordan
Issue 17

This research paper discusses some of the crafts that have been largely abandoned by village craftsmen; these crafts will be of cultural and artistic value if...

The Anthropological Aspect of Sidi Bou Ali's Kairouanese Hadra: Fixed and Variable Elements
Issue 57

The purpose of this paper is to explore traditional customs and their cultural implications, semantic patterns and dimensions as manifested in the context of...

A Culture of Glass and Stone
Issue 52

In the Arabian Gulf, the generation born in the 1940s and 1950s grew up with what remained of the culture and morals in that era. Some of this generation were...

‏Fictional elements in the contemporary Moroccan novel
Issue 24

‏Like all novels in the Arab world, the Moroccan contemporary novel is based on fictional elements of narration that create new styles of writing that...

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