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 ...

We’ve been coming to Arabian Nights for years. And, frankly, I loved the almost Disneyland- ish interior, like something out of, well, “Aladdin.” Sitting beneath the painted murals of deep-blue night ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

When you walk into the courtyard of the Arabian Village shopping center, the first thing you notice is the hum. It’s a warm wall of sound made up of clattering plates, a trickling fountain, and the ...