. The linguist and author Mohamed Bacha was the first to adapt some folktales from the oral tradition into bilingual publications in English and Tunisian Arabic, using a special latin transliteration system. Mohamed Bacha's transformation of Tunisian oral literature into written form includes folktales such as ummī sīsī(フランス語) and folktales told decades ago on radio by the famous storyteller Abdelaziz El Aroui, such as Jabra and the lion, jabra w essid, The great and marvelous Akarek, all met with success by readers worldwide. , (rabe/Contes Takamtikou BNF (2015). Contes du monde arabe. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, BNF 2015
