An Arabic Oral Epic
FAIN: RL-22167-94
University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
Dwight F. Reynolds (Project Director: June 1993 to April 1996)
To support the translation of a northern Egyptian version of an Arabic oral epic poem, the SIRAT BANI HILAL, which narrates the migration, conquest, and defeat of a Bedouin tribe in the Arabian peninsula and North Africa.