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Muhawi and Kanaana. Palestinian Arab Folktales

Today's free book is Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana (1997); it is available online as part of the University of California Press ebook initiative: link. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.



Table of Contents

Tunjur, Tunjur
The Woman Who Married Her Son
Precious One and Worn-out One
Šweš, Šweš!
The Golden Pail
Half-a-Halfling
The Orphans' Cow
Sumac! You Son of a Whore, Sumac!
The Green Bird
Little Nightingale the Crier
The Little Bird
Jummez Bin Yazur, Chief of the Birds
Jbene
Sackcloth
Šahin
The Brave Lad
Gazelle
The Seven Leavenings
The Golden Rod in the Valley of Vermilion
Minjal
Im`Eše
Chick Eggs
The Ghouleh of Trans-Jordan
Bear-Cub of the Kitchen
The Woman Whose Hands Were Cut Off
N`ayyis (Little Sleepy One)
Im `Awwad and the Ghouleh
The Merchant's Daughter
Pomegranate Seeds
The Woodcutter
The Fisherman
The Little She-Goat
The Old Woman and Her Cat
Dunglet
The Louse
The Woman Who Fell into the Well
The Rich Man and the Poor Man
Ma`ruf the Shoemaker
Im `Ali and Abu `Ali



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