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 illustration of palm-frond creature in a Kuwaiti alley at night.

Umm Al-Sa‘af: Kuwaiti Folktale

In the old neighborhoods of Kuwait, before bright streetlights chased away the dark and before children stayed awake past sunset, the evenings belonged to caution and quiet. Narrow alleys wound between mud-brick houses, and palm trees stood like silent guardians along the paths. When the wind rose after nightfall, it
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