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title: "Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor (International Folk Tales) Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2006"
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# Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor (International Folk Tales) Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2006

**Brand:** salma khadra (ed.) jayyusi
**Price:** A$39
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- **What is this?** Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humor (International Folk Tales) Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2006 by salma khadra (ed.) jayyusi
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ phenomenal and side-splittingly funny
*by B***R on November 4, 2010*

I am baffled at the review penned by my learned colleague, who saw fit to assign one star. His evidently Middle Eastern surname gives me pause, but I discern more sour grapes than legitimate analysis. I find the material extremely funny, revealing much about the cultural mores of the Arabic peoples and also providing good, honest, clean laughs. The material pokes fun at government officials, the wealthy, and the "learned" as well as demonstrating simple-minded "dummy" jokes. I also recognize material found elsewhere variously packaged, such as in the guise of Sicilian anecdotes ("Giufa," with an accent grave over the A, they call him), and one or two stories recognizable from the fables of Aesop or--as the Armenians call him when you see the material packaged as "theirs"--Olompianos with a Polish-style slash through the L.The book provides ideal light reading and, for those who don't know much about the culture of the Islamic peoples, will also proffer the rudiments of an education therein. Never mind sour-pussed reviewers who dare to contradict my authoritative opinions!

### ⭐ A Disappointing Collectionj
*by D***N on July 17, 2016*

I do a good deal of oral storytelling, and was hoping that these would be a useful resource. They are not. It's possible that a good enough storyteller could elaborate some of them into something that an audience would enjoy, but it would take a good deal of effort.The most interesting thing about the collection for me was seeing versions of stories I already knew from other sources, including one from Boccacio. In each case, the Juha version was much weaker than the version I knew. Which is the original and which the copy I cannot tell--the book provides no useful information about the dates of composition of the stories, and my guess is that they were all collected from current usage, although I gather that there are Juha stories from much earlier. Internal evidence, such as the presence of a musket in one story, suggests that at least some of them are recent enough to have been copied from an earlier European source.

### ⭐ It is supposed to contain funny tales about Geha
*by B***G on June 2, 2015*

It is supposed to contain funny tales about Geha. After I read a number of pages with great patience without finding a single funny tale I sent the book to my garbage can.

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