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An illustration of girl guiding villagers through desert using wind in Libyan folktale.

The Girl Who Spoke to the Sand Winds

In the wide, sunlit expanses of the Libyan desert, across Cyrenaica and the central Saharan lands, life has always depended on reading what cannot be easily seen. The movement of sand. Looking for more? Explore the magic of East African folktales here The direction of wind. The silence between storms. Among Arab-Berber desert communities, the wind is not merely air in
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