A report from the BBC's Middle East website looks at the tradition of storytelling and the role of the professional storyteller in the Middle East, and how history (ancient and modern) as well as contemporary events such as the Arab Spring are being adapted by the storytellers.
Click HERE to read the report
The report also includes videos of modern professional storytellers performing
But will the traditional art survive in competition with modern technology?
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Friday, 7 October 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
"Before silk: unsolved mysteries of the Silk Road" : video
Professor Colin Renfrew of the MacDonald Institute of Archaeological Research (Cambridge) delivers a lecture on the early contacts between China and Western Asia and Europe from the neolithic to the 8th century AD
This video of his lecture is uploaded onto YouTube.
Please note it runs for an hour and was recorded live
This video of his lecture is uploaded onto YouTube.
Please note it runs for an hour and was recorded live
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