This seminar, organised in collaboration with the Sheikh Zayedl Book Award, will be an open day to shed light on some aspects of this formidable work.

The Thousand and One Nights is a masterpiece of world storytelling, whose complexity and variety of stories have made it a true literary treasure. Its interweaving of tales of adventure, romance, magic and morality has placed it in a prominent place in the history of literature, offering a source of fascination and inspiration, capturing the imagination of readers of all ages and cultures throughout the centuries.

The universe of "Alf Layla wa Layla" is so vast that it invites many different readings. With this in mind, Casa Árabe and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award have organized this open day to shed light on some unknown aspects of this formidable work.

18:00 Welcome

Irene Lozano, Director-General, Casa Árabe

H.E. Ali Bin Tamim, Secretary-General of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre

18:10 Opening words: That magical and prodigious book

Luis Alberto de Cuenca, poet laureate (2015) and former director of Spanish National Library

18:20 Revisiting 1001 Nights

Mounira Soliman, Re-writing A thousand and One Nights from a feminist viewpoint

Salvador Peña, Multimodal Shahrazad: A Thousand and One Nights and its re-enactments

19:00 Hanoos Hanoos, "The Brushes of The Arabian Nights"

Paulo Lemos Horta, "Shahrazad and Hanna Diyab: storytellers of A Thousand and One Nights"

Desirée López Bernal, "The tales of Ali Baba and Aladdin and their traces in the European folklore tradition"

Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/revisiting-a-thousand-and-one-nights