Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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What One Thousand and One Nights Can Teach Us Today

What One Thousand and One Nights Can Teach Us Today

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Shehrazad and the cruel Sultan through the eyes of German artist Ferdinand Keller, 19th Century

“You must have grown up with different stories in Turkey,” said an American scholar to me many years ago. “I guess magical realism comes naturally to you.”

It made me pause, the comment.

“Different stories?” I asked.

‘Yes, like One Thousand and One Nights….”

I w…

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