North African Folktales

Dr Christa Catherine Jones (Editor and Introduction) is Professor of French at Utah State University. Her research focuses on postcolonial North African literature, film and folklore. She is the editor of Djeha, the North African Trickster (2023) and coeditor of: Algerian Filmmaker Merzak Allouache (2017), New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales (2016) and Women from the Maghreb: Looking Back and Moving Forward (2014). She is the author of Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation (2012). Her coedited volume The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales is forthcoming in 2025.

J.K. Jackson is General Editor of The World’s Greatest Myths and Legends series, with titles including Myths of Babylon, Indian Myths, Egyptian Myths, Norse Myths and Polynesian Island Myths. He is editor of Myths and Legends and foreword writer for Celtic Myths & Tales. Other related work includes articles on the Philosophy of Time, ‘Macbeth, A Gothic Chaos’ and William Blake’s use of mythology in his visionary literature.