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This collection of Kurdish folk and fairy tales presents a quick glance at the Kurdish folklore that is essentially rich in stories and tales of kings, princes, shepherds, common folks, fairies, ogres, ogresses, and so on. In a society that is deeply rooted in tradition and culture, stories and storytelling are, as a matter of fact, embedded in the Kurdish collective unconscious and, thus, become part and parcel of the Kurdish mentality. In addition to giving an account of a world in which anything can happen, the stories, basically, highlight such defining aspects of the Kurdish identity as courage, honesty, integrity, ingenuity, and above all, endurance.

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N. Al-Haidari, Saffeen
Saffeen Al-Haidari is a professor of English literature at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities & Social sciences, Koya University, Iraq. He received his MA and PhD degrees in modern and postmodern English novel. His interests are theories on experimentation in narrative and stylistic techniques in contemporary literature.

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