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Two main Arabic manuscript traditions of the Nights are known: the Syrian and the Egyptian. The Syrian tradition is primarily represented by the earliest extensive manuscript of the Nights, a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Syrian manuscript now known as the Galland Manuscript. It and surviving copies of it are much shorter and include fewer ...
El Leila El Kebira (الليلة الكبيرة) (The Grand Night or The Big Night) is a 1961 Egyptian puppet-operetta that was written by poet Salah Jahin with the music composed by Sayed Mekawy. Approximately 40-minutes in length, it formed a big part of the Egyptian folklore due to its expressive and funny depiction of the moulid and has ...
'The Time Has Passed') [1] is one of the iconic songs by the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum. It was written by Morsi Jamil Aziz , composed by Baligh Hamdi , and sung in 1967. [ 2 ] This song is the second collaboration between Umm Kulthum and lyricist Morsi Gamil Aziz, following " Seret El Hob " (1964) and before " Alf Leila wa Leila " (1969 ...
John Payne - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (unexpurgated) (1882–84) Edward Powys Mathers based on J. C. Mardrus in 4 volumes (1923) Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons - The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights published by Penguin Books based on the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) in 10 volumes (2008)
Rick Dangerous (1989, Level 2 – Egypt) Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire (1990, Katta's Tail Inn) Spot: The Video Game! (1990, when adding a piece to the right) Pyramid and Pyramid II (1990, first level) Lotus Turbo Challenge 1 (1991, desert level) Jill of the Jungle (1992) The Lost Vikings (1992, Level 3 – Egypt) Lemmings 2 (1993, Egyptian ...
The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 [1] Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat or Old Cairo, Egypt. [2] These manuscripts span the entire period of Middle-Eastern, North African, and ...
Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), [1] written by the American composer Philip Glass in 1983. The libretto is by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel, Richard Riddell , and Jerome Robbins .
Harper's Songs are ancient Egyptian texts that originated in tomb inscriptions of the Middle Kingdom (but found on papyrus texts until the Papyrus Harris 500 of the New Kingdom), which in the main praise life after death and were often used in funerary contexts.