The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.
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The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.
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The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco

The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco

The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco

The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco

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Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781838600006
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 06/18/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Richard Hamilton has worked for the BBC World Service as a broadcast journalist since 1998, including being a correspondent in Morocco, South Africa and Madagascar.

Barnaby Rogerson is an author and publisher. Together with his partner Rose Baring, he runs Eland Books, which specializes in keeping the classics of travel literature in print. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of the Prophet Mohammed, and the Prophet's heirs, a history of The Last Crusades and travel guides to such places as Morocco, Cyprus and Istanbul. He writes frequently for Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveller (UK), Harper's Bazaar and the Times Literary Supplement.

Table of Contents

*Introduction
• The Red Lantern
• The Fakir and the Frog
• The Gazelle with the Golden Horns
• The Shoemaker and the Bird
• The Traveller and the Sultan's Daughter
• The Woman who fell in love with the Hermit
• The Trials of Noureddine
• The Sultan and his Vizier's Wife
• The Thief and the Judge
• Seven Coins and a Donkey
• The Girl from Fes
• The Sultan and his Vizier
• The Sultan's Daughter
• The Clothes Merchant and the Young Woman
• The Laundryman
• The Man who went against his Father's Wishes
• The Lion and the Wolf
• The Oil Merchant's Son
• The Sultan and the Chicken
• The Two Hunchbacks
• El-Ghaliya bent Mansour
• King Kadour and his son Mouhand *The Land and the Treasure
• The Statue and the Robber
• The Tailor, the Princess and the Eagle
• Nour and the Sultan
• The Sultan and the Thief
• The Eyes of Ben'Adi
• The Vizier and the Barber
• The Imam and the Wager
• The Date Gatherers
• Ismail and the Thieves
• The Birth of the Sahara
• The Christian Woman
• The Rich Woman and the Sacks of Corn
• The Nobleman and his Three Sons
• The Vengeance of Allah
• The Three Figs
• The Legend of the Rose
• Aicha Rmada
• The Queen and the King, the son of Amelkani
• The Bird from the Land of Gabour
• One hundred and one Beheadings
• The Sultan's Daughter and the Leper
• The Woman and the Black Cat
• The City and the Countryside
• Suleiman and the Stork
• The Woman and the Devil
• The Pomegranate and the Talking Drum

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