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Scheherazade in the palace of her husband, Shahryar. Scheherazade or Shahrazad (Persian: شهرزاد, Šahrzād, or شهرزاد, Šahrāzād, lit. ' child of the city ') [1] [2] is the legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller and narrator of The Nights.
The oldest known text of the tale of Scheherazade is a ninth century (CE) Arabic manuscript from Cairo.Across the next five centuries, Scheherazade’s "witty, lively and dynamic" voice was taken up by storytellers across the cultivated urban centres of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and al-Andalus, with influences from multiple traditions, including Greek, Coptic, North African, and Hebrew.
Shéhérazade or Scorching Sands is a 1963 adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character.The cast also featured Gérard Barray, António Vilar and Giuliano Gemma [2] The film is loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights.
The Wrath & the Dawn is a 2015 young adult novel by Renée Ahdieh.It is a reimagining of the Arabian Nights and is about a teenage girl, Shahrzad, who, as an act of revenge, volunteers to marry a caliph, Khalid, even though she is aware that he takes a new bride each night and has them executed at sunrise, but then finds herself falling in love with him.
In modern Cairo, Hebba hosts an evening political talk show on Sun TV.Karim, her husband, is the deputy director of a newspaper that backs the Government; he dreams of soon being the director.
Shahrzad (Reza Kamal) (1898–1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright; Şehrazat (Şehrazat Kemali Söylemezoğlu, born 1952), Turkish singer-songwriter; Rachel Sheherazade (born 1973), Brazilian journalist; Shaharzad Akbar (born 1987), Afghan human rights activist; Shahrazad Ali (born 1954), American author
"Sesame Street" has been gentrified. After 45 seasons, the brick walls that once fenced in the neighborhood have been razed, giving way to sweeping views of what looks suspiciously like the Brooklyn Bridge (it is in fact a composite of three New York City bridges).
Common names include birdeye speedwell, [2] common field-speedwell, [3] Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell. It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species in the British Isles (where it was first recorded in 1825 [ 4 ] ), North America, eastern Asia , including Japan and China , and ...