The Man Who Was a Liar and the Man Who Was Truthful: A Lebanese Folktale of Cunning and Consequence
In the rolling hills of northern Lebanon, in a village known for its stone houses and terraces of olive trees, lived two men whose reputations could not have been more different. The first man was known far and wide as a liar, so skilled in twisting words that even the simplest truth became unrecognizable in his telling. The second man,