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Summary | The story The Smartest Girl (Sitt Al Shuttar) is inspired the popular Egyptian folktales revolving around the adventures of el shatir Hassan (smart Hassan). In this tale, the writer presents a character called The Smartest Girl and her adventure of delivering the King’s ring to the brave messenger. The story is written by the She Said: Gender Sensitive Storytelling Workshop in the Women and Memory Forum. This workshop is comprised of a group of women writers who use storytelling as a means of empowering women in stories and giving them positive and effective roles. Their aim is to present women in a more realistic light and to battle the stereotypical and prescribed roles assigned to them in traditional storytelling. |
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Format | publications: children's stories | book title | The Smartest Girl / Sitt-al-Shuttar | Author | Mounira Soliman | Editor or illustrator | Illustrated By: Sherif Danish | Year of publication | 2002 | Organization/publishing house | Women and memory forum | Organization URL | www.wmf.org.eg | About the Author |