CONTENTS

FOREWORD: CIRCLES IN THE JEMAA EL FNA

AUTHOR’S NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Introduction

The Red Lantern

The King and His Prime Minister

The Gazelle with the Golden Horns

The Imam and the Wager

The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Hermit

The Birth of the Sahara

The Trials of Noureddine

The Sultan and His Vizier’s Wife

The Queen and the King, the Son of Amelkani

Nour and the Sultan

The Laundryman and the Fountain

The Man Who Went Against His Father's Wishes

The Vizier and the Chicken

The Fakir and the Frog

The Two Hunchbacks

El-Ghaliya Bent Mansour

The Land and the Treasure

The Statue and the Robber

The Tailor, the Princess and the Eagle

The Sultan and the Thief

The Eyes of Ben’Adi

The Shoemaker and the Bird

The Vizier and the Barber

Seven Coins and a Donkey

The Sultan’s Daughter and the Leper

The Nobleman and His Three Sons

The Vengeance of Allah

The Woman and the Black Cat

Aicha Rmada

The Traveller and the Pasha’s Daughter

The Girl from Fes

One Hundred and One Beheadings

The Three Figs

Suleiman, the Stork and the City of Gold

The Woman and the Devil

The Bird from the Land of Gabour

The Pomegranate and the Talking Drum