Arabs and the Art of Storytelling - Abdelfattah Kilito - Bog

Revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. Kilito brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala' refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures.