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Thursday, February 22, 2007

BBC: The story-tellers of Marrakesh


From the BBC:


In the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, you can still find men who tell ancient stories that have been handed down from generation to generation.

But with modern technology offering new forms of diversion and entertainment, young people are ignoring the story-tellers and for the first time in perhaps 1,000 years the tradition is dying out.

3 comments:

nuh ibn zbigniew gondek said...

As salaam alaikum.

So the answer is to track down our brother storyteller, write down their tales and put them online:

http://nuhgondek.blogspot.com/2007/02/give-two-halves.html

Wa salaama,

nuh ibn

Anonymous said...

hey I read that, I would luv to meet on those story tellers! It would be cool to listen to those hikams...

Anonymous said...

Such storytellers still exist in every country, though they are getting rarer now. Thanks for the article.

Ya Haqq!