Al Daheeh

One Thousand and One Nights (8x41)

Air date: Mar 12, 2024

An episode on the origin and impact of the nights of a thousand nights and nights, the famous Arabic book, how he was quoted to the West and how he translated and crafted and added tales from outside, as a tale of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, but who wrote a thousand nights? And are they Arabs, Persians or Indians? Are in Egypt or Al-Sham or Baghdad? And how it influenced the European narrative until today?