Asphalt Folklore: 1000 Wisdoms of the Road

Folklore has never been complex, nor has it been scum blown away by the wind. Rather, it has achieved its status, value, and importance from its simplicity and its proximity to the clay of the earth and the soil from which it was produced. Its roots are authentic, firm, and deeply rooted in its environment, despite its apparent lightness, freedom, rebellion, and spontaneity. Based on the great importance that folklore has gained from delving into the depths of the human soul and expressing human sincerity, in addition to its certain and close relationship with literature and the arts in their various forms, the writer Basma Hassan presents us with this enjoyable study on what she called "microbus wisdom." From the beginning, she traces what folklore is, its importance, and the forms of expression of it, and about proverbs, their characteristics, and the similarities between them and "microbus wisdom." Then, the writer moves on to monitor a thousand wisdoms that she has collected from the road. You will find in them what makes you laugh and mock, what opens your wound, what gives you a lesson and a sermon, what reminds you of your value, what urges you to work and strive for a livelihood, what gives you advice, what instills sadness, sorrow, and anger in you as well, what gives you hope, and some of them invite you to contemplate.