1001 Nights

Scheherazade's Identities: Then and Now

	Introduction	Scheherazade Telling Tales Kay Nielsen (c. 1918-22)
	Arabian Nights (RQ)
	Edgar Allen Poe's "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade" (RQ)
	Lynne Thornton's Women Portrayed in Orientalist Painting (RQ)
	Fatema Mernissi's Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems (RQ)
	Leïla Sebbar's Sherazade (RQ)
	Multimedia
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