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Herat

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Aigio

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Ioannina

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Iran

Arak

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Bijar

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Borujerd

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Golpayegan

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Proverb against betrayal

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Friend helps in times of trouble

Israel

Hebron

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Amadiya

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Israel

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Lebanon

Beirut

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Libya

Benghazi

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Msallata

Song and proverb: "You laugh, the world laughs"

Morocco

Asilah

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Casablanca

Blessings and proverbs

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

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Fes

Proverb

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Marrakesh

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Mazagan (El Jadida)

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Meknes

Proverbs and short tales

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Ouarzazate

Blessings and proverbs

Oumnass

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Syria

Aleppo

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Damascus

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ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye): proverbs and traditions

Tunisia

Gabes

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Gafsa

Parable about beauty

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Matmata

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Moknine

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Nabeul

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Zarzis

In his life he longed to eat one date, and when he died they hung a cluster of dates on his neck

A bald woman takes pride in her sister-in-law's hair

Anyone who relied on a wedding meal, would sleep without dinner

Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt

Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife

Dog's tail placed in a press for forty years and still remain curved

Even if you found honey, don't eat it all

Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things

If a brother would have loved his siblings, they would not weep for their father's death

if it wasn't for eating, man would have grown diamonds

If the camel saw its hump, it would cut its neck off

If the Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty) had not blinded the gentiles, we couldn't have lived with them

If you find honey, eat it and leave a little

Many captains drown the ship

Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku

Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer

Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold

The layabout has the advice

The satiated man does not cry over hunger

Turkey

Izmir

Proverbs

Proverbs

Yemen

Ḥabban

Proverbs and song

Ḥawlan

Tales and proverbs

Haz

Mother's proverbs

Radaʿa

Proverbs

Sodom (Ḥawlan)

Proverbs

Tanˁam

Proverbs

ʿAden

Arabic of ʿAden: description, proverbs and blessings

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