Damascus-SANA
Among the popular literature in the countryside of Lattakia is a book by researcher Haider Muhammad Nu’aysa in which he documents the vernacular dialect in that region through biographies, proverbs, riddles, folk tales, old people’s talk, and other things.
In his book, the author relies on collective memory in addition to other references such as forms of expression in popular literature by Dr. Nabila Ibrahim, popular beliefs in the Arab heritage of Hassan Al-Basha, folk tales in Lattakia by Bassam Al-Saai, and other references that examine folklore, heritage and folk literature.
It seems that the author collected what distinguishes that coastal dialect in addition to what is common between it and others in terms of popular proverbs and tales without being isolated from what is a special and unique feature in that region.
The researcher believes that heritage is the identity of the people and its distinguishing mark, and that the stories he narrated from the countryside of Lattakia bear the fragrance of the sea and the colors of life and deal with the worlds of agriculture, grazing, trade, business, gold, money, poverty, wealth, corruption, cleverness, cunning, marriage, motherhood, family worlds, and others.
The book issued by the Syrian General Book Organization is located in 664 pages of large pieces. It is mentioned that the researcher, Naisa, born in Lattakia, studied political science, worked in teaching and journalism, and was interested in folklore in the coastal countryside.
Bilal Ahmad
