Nearly everyone is familiar with this collection of folktales, also known as One Thousand and One Nights, and its infamous framing device: Scheherazade, the vizier’s daughter, is set to be married and ...

Robert Shiller is a Nobel Laureate and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Shiller shared his review of The Arabian Nights for our ongoing series of book reviews by leaders from the ...

When it comes to Middle Eastern folktales, few have stood the test of time like One Thousand and One Nights has. Known by us westerners as Arabian Nights, it’s a tale of betrayal, infidelity, action, ...

The history of The Arabian Nights (sometimes known as The Thousand and One Nights) is complicated, messy, and truly global in scale. The earliest Arabic versions seem to have been translated from ...

Arabian Nights (1974) is a fantasy drama focusing on Nur Ed Din, who falls in love with his slave girl Zumurrud. It is the third installment in the Trilogy of Life. The film is loosely based on The ...

“The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from the 1001 Nights” edited with an Introduction and Notes by Paulo Lemos Horta, translated by Yasmine Seale. New York and London: Norton, 2021. 732 pages, $45 ...

That king – who is never named – has been “wedding, bedding and beheading” thousands of women for years. There are five left in this Arab country (also unnamed), locked in the basement of the king’s ...

BATS Improv, San Francisco's premier center for improvisation, will partner with Zawaya, the Bay Area's Arabic music community ensemble, to present Improvised Arabian Nights at the historic Bayfront ...

Condensing the book of The Thousand Nights and One Nights, (or Arabian Nights as it’s more widely known) into a two hour production is always going to be a tall order. Thankfully, Mary Zimmerman’s ...

In the black, silver-sequined tent of a Moroccan chieftain sat a dark-haired beauty. And before her on a dusty plain, a multitude of bearded Berber tribes men played at war for her amusement. Outside ...