The fact that the job of storytelling isn't one which provides its professionals with great amounts of money is widely known. Even in the areas of Middle East, where storytelling is supposed to be original, the task of telling stories must be regarded as something obsolete. It is also said that once nomads settled in towns, the tradition of storytelling began vanishing.
Furthermore, the modern society forces most parents to be far away from their children and, as a result, telling a tale becomes secondary as there is little time to do so; the nowadays' regular child usually relies on PlayStation to entertain him (or even her), but I'm afraid this isn't the most advisable pastime.
New technologies, more specifically the information and communication ones, are a drawback for oral storytelling. Can anyone think what had happened to minstrels if the Internet could have told their narration of feasts too?
Last but not least, what has really made me think is the point that topics for modern stories have been created the so-called "Arab Spring". People are more likely to know the events that have happened since 2011 by word of mouth than by watching documentaries about them or reading them in an encyclopaedia. I wonder if it'll turn out to be the reappearance of this magnificent tradition in those countries. Time will tell us.
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