1001 Nights (Updated)
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
1001 Nights retold 1001 Nights 101; 1001 Nights: A Retelling - Hanan Al-Shaykh; SONIC SIDEBAR: Orhan Pamuk on The Arabian Nights; Salman Rushdie on "Luka and the Fire of Life"; Dangerous Idea: Narcissism is Good; On Our Minds: OKCupid.
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, the thousand and one night's come back to life. It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, the thousand and one nights come back to life. |
| 0:25.2 | A touchstone of Arab culture. |
| 0:27.0 | There's some of the oldest and most enchanting stories ever told. |
| 0:30.5 | They're also sexually explicit, graphically violent, and surprisingly relevant today. |
| 0:35.5 | I'll be a Sherrassad, tell it new each night. |
| 0:47.1 | Cherasat, tell me stories. |
| 0:53.4 | This is no ordinary land! |
| 0:56.0 | It once changed the course of a young man's life. |
| 1:00.0 | A young man who liked his life was more than what is seen. |
| 1:08.0 | Now you're only gonna bount thousand more tales to tell them. |
| 1:14.6 | Alibaba and the 40thees. |
| 1:18.6 | Alibaba and the 40thys. Alibaba and the 40thys. |
| 1:21.6 | Alibaba and the 40thys. |
| 1:24.6 | Alibaba and the 40thys. So you know these stories, right? Alibaba and the 40 Thieves, Sinbad, Aladdin, Flying Carpets, and Magic Lamps. |
| 1:36.3 | The 1001 Nights are known in the West as the Arabian Nights, stories that have been told and retold for centuries, |
| 1:43.5 | censored and banned in the Middle East, |
| 1:45.3 | and made it cheesy Disney movies for kids. |
| 1:47.7 | But have you ever actually read them? |
| 1:50.3 | Today, three brilliant writers, Orhan Pamuk, Hanan al-Shake, and Salman Rushdie |
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