Author: Wafa' Tarnowska Publisher: ISBN: 9781846865671 Category : Arabs Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lebanese author Wafa' Tarnowska opens a window into the Arab world with her magnificent new translation of eight stories from 'A Thousand and One Nights'. With bright, lush, stylized acrylic illustrations, this collection of eight stories from 'A Thousand and One Nights' is designed for reading aloud, but in contrast to many watered-down versions, these tales may find their best audience with older elementary students and middle-schoolers. The long introductory story, Shahriyar Meets Shahrazade, tells of the shah's discovery of his beloved wife's betrayal and his shocking decision to marry a new bride every day and then order her death. Then he meets and marries Shahrazade, who persuades Shahriyar to keep her alive by telling him a riveting story each night. This edition is notable for combining favourites such as Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp with less familiar tales such as The Diamond Anklet and The Speaking Bird and the Singing Tree Throughout, the spacious paintings capture the sense of the supernatural in daily life, including magical images of people taking flight above city, trees, and desert. A chapter book AGES: 9-12 Colour illustrations
Author: Naomi Lewis Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers ISBN: 9780805004045 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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Twenty-seven of the tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.
Author: Lisette Langlois Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1457541319 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 128
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It is summer of 1968, a new music is in the air. A dionysan epidemic is spreading like wildfire all over the western world. Seemingly overnight, thousands of young people are waking up to leave behind security and consumerism, heading East and South in search of truth and the miraculous. An innocent girl from Northern Ontario meets a bad boy from New York. They both take a big leap into wild adventures cruising the colorful roads of Morocco. For years to come they immerse themselves together with a select group of friends in an exotic Islamic world, adding new tales to the never ending collection of The Arabian Nights. The book delivers a touching compassionate inside view into the Islamic culture, being as it is a real life anthropological study of a recently demonized people. Going deep into Moslem life, butting heads with it’s patriarchic structure, the author emerges victorious as an ardent feminist. Ms Langlois is the mother of three, two of which were in tow in their early years. She studied the healing arts after returning to the US. Besides writing, she dedicates herself to healthy food, organic farming and sustainable living in Hawaii.
Author: Muhsin Mahdi Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393313673 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 472
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The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.
Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arabs Languages : en Pages : 414
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Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
Author: Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0812972147 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1106
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Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
Author: Alia Yunis Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307453642 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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"An immigrant-ethnic cocktail laced with political oppression, but before shaking, [Alia Yunis] adds Scheherazade, the fabled storyteller who kept herself alive by distracting her tyrannical husband for a thousand and one nights." --Carolyn See, Washington Post After 85 years, Fatima knows that she is dying because for the last 991 days she has been visited by the immortal storyteller from The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade. Just as Scheherazade spun magical stories for 1,001 nights to save her own life, Fatima has spent each night telling Scheherazade her life stories. But with only nine days left before her death, Fatima has a few loose ends to tie up. She must find a wife for her openly gay grandson, teach Arabic (and birth control) to her 17-year-old great-granddaughter, make amends with her estranged husband, and decide which of her troublesome children should inherit her family's home in Lebanon--a house she herself has not seen in nearly 70 years. Fatima’s children are spread far apart and are wrapped up in their own chaotic lives seemingly disinterested in their mother and their inheritances. But as she weaves stories of her husband, children, and grandchildren, Fatima brings together a family that is both capricious and steadfast, affectionate and also smothering, connected yet terribly alone. Taken all together, they present a striking and surprising tapestry of modern Arab American life. Shifting between America and Lebanon over the last hundred years, Alia Yunis crafts a bewitching debut novel imbued with great humanity, imagination, family drama and a touch of magic realism. Be prepared to feel utterly charmed.
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