Adab Colloquium: Enass Khansa
The Queen of Sorcerers and Thirteen Anonymous Tales on Love With Presenter Enass Khansa, Asst. Professor & Chair of Dept. of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, American University of Beirut […]
Julia Bray
The ‘1001 Nights’ Outclassed: The 10th-century Stories of Tanūkhī
“I think Tanūkhī’s stories outclass the Nightsin every way, and unlike Shahrazad, he doesn’t go on and on. His plots are brisk and varied, even though in Deliverance Follows Adversity all the stories are about someone, usually someone just like you or me, getting into some sort of tight spot in one of their less bright moments, and coming out gratefully on the other side[.]”