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Juleidah: the Princess in the Leather Burqa (Egyptian folktale)

When her father decided to marry her, this leather-clad princess embarked on one of the most bonkers Cinderella tales ever told.

“Neither here nor elsewhere,” begins this Egyptian folktale, “lived a king.” This nameless king, it’s said, loved his wife and his daughter above all things. And so when his wife died of unspecified causes (let’s say spontaneous combusti...