The Oral Art of Soqotra: A Collection of Island Voices

In the bilingual English-Arabic work, The Oral Art of Soqotra: A Collection of Island Voices, Miranda Morris and Tanuf Salim Di-Kisin, in collaboration with Soqotrans from all parts of the island, present over a thousand examples of poems and songs, prayers, lullabies, work-chants, messages in code, riddles, examples of community wisdom encapsulated in poetic couplets, and stories centred on a short poem or exchange of poems. These were documented by oral transmission directly to the authors, or through recordings collected by them. They are presented in Soqotri (transcribed phonetically in Roman and in Arabic script), and in English and Arabic translation.

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