Seven Abdulkarims

From 2015 to 2016, the multidisciplinary artist Elham Rokni asked Sudanese and Eritrean refugees living in Israel to share with her folktales from their home countries. Rokni, who was born in Iran and immigrated to Israel at the age of nine, included eighteen of the aforementioned stories in an artist book entitled "The Iblis, the Girl, the Sultan and the Lion's Tail." The tales are presented side by side with vibrant drawings created by Rokni, offering imaginative visual interpretations of the texts. The folktales from Eritrea and Sudan appear in the book in four languages - in Hebrew and in English, as well as in the storytellers mother tongues: Arabic and Tigrinya.