Ayomide Adekilekun

Ayomide Adekilekun

Parchment-style illustration of Zahra and Lebanese women outsmarting men in a mountain courtyard

Women’s Wit Beats Men’s Wiles | A Lebanese Folktale

In the heart of the Lebanese mountains, where olive trees whisper secrets to the wind and evening lamps flicker in stone courtyards, lived a group of villagers who loved nothing more than storytelling. One night, after supper, the men gathered in the village square, boasting of their cleverness. “Women,” they said with laughter, “may be good at cooking and spinning,
Parchment-style artwork of the young prince answering his father’s riddle, Syrian folktale scene.

The Heaviest and the Lightest

Once, in a distant Syrian kingdom, there lived a prince and his wife, a woman of grace yet often misunderstood. Though bound by marriage and years of companionship, the two rarely saw eye to eye. Every disagreement between them ended with the prince uttering the same bitter words: “It’s not
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