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Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: The Thousand and One Nights

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This video introduces the world of high Islamic culture, lowbrow comedy, and encounters with the spirit world, all through the stories of the brave Shahrazad, who saves her own life, her husband's sanity, the kingdom, and all of her readers from the evils of life with her stories. [26:45]

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