2. The Arabian Nights aren’t just from Arabia. Dating back as far as the 10th century A.D., these tales have origins in North African, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Indian, and East Asian cultures.

The art house equivalent of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second part in Portuguese maverick Miguel Gomes ’ Arabian Nights trilogy, The Desolate One, is an appropriately striking ...

Yasmine Al-Sayyad reviews the new edition of “Arabian Nights,” as translated by the French Syrian poet Yasmine Seale, which is the first to include both Hanna Diyab’s stories, as relayed to ...

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights, translated by Malcolm Lyons with Ursula Lyons in three volumes is published by Penguin, priced £125. To order from Telegraph Books at £113 phone 0844 ...

The Arabian Nights, translated by Husain Haddawy, based on the text edited by Muhsin Mahdi (Norton, $14.95). “For over a hundred years, we have known `The Arabian Nights’ through the tr… ...