Pearls on a branch
Subtitle: oral tales
By: Najla Jraissaty Khoury, [compiler] ; translated from the Arabic by Inea Bushnaq
Edition: First Archipelago books edition.
Publisher: Archipelago
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780914671961
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Tales; Folklore; Women
Other titles: Ḥikāyāt wa-ḥikāyāt. Selections. English.
Description: 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.