Battana Foundation will hold a discussion and signing ceremony of the book “Popular Tales at Al -Baja” by Masoud Shoman, issued by Dar Battana, on Tuesday, October 25, at seven in the evening at Batana and the readers ’club in Bab al -Luq, Amara 2, over the coffee of freedom in front of the astronomical garage.
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shabana, Professor of Popular Performance Arts at the Academy of Arts, discusses the book.
Khaled Abu Al-Layl is a professor of folk literature and a representative of Cairo University’s Faculty of Arts. Poet and author Yousry Hassan will serve as the symposium’s moderator.
Among the book: “It is said that the grandfather of the Great Beja tribes,“ Coca ”, was originally a stone that descended from the mountain of“ Bala ”after which he turned human beings, and he had a wife called“ Kouka Fairy ”, and the Romans kidnapped her, and they fled to the coast to sell it; but she managed to escape She collapsed in a cave in Jabal Bala, with her final breath being identified as “Anuka” following the birth of her child.
He was devastated by the loss of his wife, and when his descendants made a commitment to stay away from him to shield him from evils, he retreated to Jabal Balah in his original form and first stone nature.
discussing and signing Masoud Shoman’s book “Popular Tales at Al-Baja” on Tuesday.
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