A quarterly specialized journal
The Message Of Folklore from Bahrain To The World

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Raising a Child in a Rural Community: A Study of Rural Folk Beliefs
Issue 53

The rural community is replete with practices that people resort to in response to diseases, crises and the deaths of infants in an effort to protect children...

Vernacular Poetry in Libya: Art, Culture and History
Issue 20

Poetry reflects the highest creativity, particularly when it is accessible to people and in their spoken language. When poetry is composed in a people’s...

The Impact of Desert and City Cultures on the Traditional Sadu Craft and Products in Kuwait 
Issue 43

Textiles and their raw materials and artistic elements and designs can offer us insights into the textile-makers’ knowledge, expertise, and...

Swordplay: The Movement Style of Al-Ababeda
Issue 9

This research addresses dancing as a complex cultural phenomenon in which different elements of social construction (including the ecological environment,...

Ethnography of Traditional Medicine
Issue 23

Man has always made an effort to maintain good health and to be free of ailments. He has aspired to control disease and anything that prevents the body from...

Folk culture: Cultural fusion and peace among peoples
Issue 27

This study is based on the idea that a people’s folk culture or cultural legacy is a wealth of peace, security, tolerance and unity. Folk culture is the...

Egyptian Laments for the Dead
Issue 46

Researchers of folk literature have not examined the nature of lamentation as a kind of folklore or discussed its origin, evolution, decline and...

Has the Machine Started to Change the Concept of Folk Culture?
Issue 46

This study addresses the digital revolution that has transformed the world from an object into a subject. If the digital is perceived as a new culture, it also...

Folklore dance in Adrar (Tuat): The example of Qarqabu dance
Issue 55

Since ancient times, folk dance has been a way for the members of a society to express their desire to be free of life's worries, to vent their repressions and...

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