When the National Guard in Saudi Arabia decided to organize a national festival of heritage and culture in Janadriyah in the mid-1980s, a delegation visited the region’s research centres to discuss ways to develop and implement the idea. At this time, I had the honour of participating in the discussions held at the Arab Gulf States Folklore Centre in Doha, a centre that I directed until it closed.  

This research focuses on popular literature. Though it is a subset of heritage, it conveys independent messages based on the compositional function of words. In studying this genre, we must apply the structural approach if we are to understand the underlying connotations of its discourse beneath its surface narrative structure.

This paper reviews the evolution and development of Mawwal art in Iraq. Mawwal is a type of lyrical verse. The Mwalia is the origin of the quatrain Mawwal, which was created by a Barmakid Jariah, (slave-girl), in the Abbasid period, (the 8th century AD).

Wen studying Egyptian folklore in Siwa Oasis, we find this area is the site of many popular practices that relate to the place and its cultural identity. This study attempts to describe the relationships among elements of folklore in Siwa Oasis; these elements are reflected in popular celebrations, remedies, practices associated with the springs, and popular games.

The collective memory has a great interest in beginnings and origins; this interest is made manifest in popular seasonal celebrations, rituals and oral narratives that make reference to the past.This study investigates how origins and beginnings are portrayed in popular narratives, and how origins and beginnings’ functions and meanings relate to collective memory and group identity. The study is based on the ethnographic oral code of the geographical and sociocultural space of Benzerte in the northeast of Tunisia.

The folktale does not necessarily require a historical reference in the same way that Arabic epic literature does because folktales include supernatural and legendary characters created by imagination.

Tawizah is a Tunisian word that describes the collective tasks that people perform voluntarily in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Tawizah is closely related to the customs and traditions of the tribes’ socio-economic life.

Falcons, (genus Falco), are strong birds with relatively long wings with solid muscles; they hunt during the day. 

nlinguistic terms, a ritual is a religious ceremony that involves a series of actions performed in a certain manner, but it is hard to find a conventional description of the word.

This research paper discusses some of the crafts that have been largely abandoned by village craftsmen; these crafts will be of cultural and artistic value if they are promoted as part of tourism marketing for the areas in which they were discovered, especially given the popularity of environmental tourism.