This issue of the quarterly Folk Culture Journal is the second to be published in the Journal's fourteenth year. With steady progress and enlightened thinking,...

This paper discusses trends in Sudanese culture. It examines the contradiction between reality and the imagined backed by an ideology of supremacist...

Since ancient times, folk dance has been a way for the members of a society to express their desire to be free of life's worries, to vent their repressions and...

In Tunisia, there are numerous ways to revitalise traditional songs, from preserving the song's identity to introducing partial or total change. However, the...

Folk literature is typically characterised as literature created by an individual whose identity is merged with that of the group to which he belongs in order...

Morocco has long been a rich melting pot of musical traditions with numerous cultural influences (Berber and Arab) from the Mediterranean region and Africa. It...

On several levels, research into the history of Sufi rituals is crucial because it reveals that Sufism was not just an individual inclination towards...

The traditional carpet (Zarbiyah) represents one of the most famous and authentic traditional industries in Tunisia. Zarbiyah is the singular form of the...

Humans’ relationship with the olive tree was more than just a utilitarian one based on harvesting and squeezing its fruit for use in food, medicine and...

This study aims to highlight the roles played by historical and social factors and the residents’ economic activities in the emergence of the...

This paper aims to describe the types of houses in western and eastern Sudan. It also describes the raw materials used and the types, functions and uses of...