The city of Peshawar has long been the region's stronghold of oral history, its Qissa Khawani or "storytellers bazaar", a Silk Road hub where travellers and locals alike congregated to hear a well-spun yarn. But few are still listening...

Clip 1 from the 1961 film 'De quel amour blessec', which shows images from Algeria through the centuries from the perspective of four writers: Apulece, Saint Augustin, Ibn Khaldoun et Albert Camus. Scenes from the city of Algiers,...

May 4 -- Bloomberg Intelligence's Paul Sweeney discusses the sale of DreamWorks to Comcast for $3.8B and what the deal means for the buyer and for CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. He speaks to Bloomberg's Oliver Renick, Joe Weisenthal and Alix...

Traditional Burkinabe storyteller KPG has taken to livestreaming his tales to an online audience, confined at home due to the coronavirus pandemic (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Dinamarca está homenajeando a su más famoso escritor, Hans Christian Andersen, y ha renovado su museo para llevar a los visitantes al mundo de fantasía del narrador (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN: The endangered trade of story-telling in Syria

CLEAN : Books invade Rio de Janeiro favela

Storytellers invade a favela in Rio de Janeiro with books to encourage reading in an environment where the habit is usually unwelcome (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Decenas de contadores de historias entregaron libros en una favela de Rio para fomentar la lectura en un territorio hostil a este habito

Snake charmers, storytellers and crowds of tourists; the legendary Jamaa El Fna square of Morocco's Marrakech is almost as famous for the number of visitors as its colourful performers (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

One of the world's most famous storytellers, Hans Christian Andersen is being celebrated in his hometown of Odense (central Denmark) with a new museum designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, which combines biographical elements with a...