One Thousand and One Nights
Collection of Middle Eastern folk tales
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| March 30 2025 | Sultan's Game, a card-based simulation and narrative game inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, is released on Steam. The game challenges players to complete weekly tasks set by a Sultan, making critical choices to survive a cruel game. |
| 2024 | Egyptian adaptation titled 'An Al Awan' (Is The Night) was released. |
| 2024 | Scheduled publication of his autobiography 'Around the World in 80 Years: A Life of Exploration', reflecting on his extensive career of adventures and expeditions. |
| May 9 2024 |
Take Me to Your Heaven
Charlotte Perrelli performed 'Take Me to Your Heaven' as part of a sing-along interval act in the second semi-final of Eurovision held in Malmö, Sweden.
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| April 6 2024 | Bucchigiri?! anime television series concluded its broadcast on TV Tokyo and its affiliates |
| January 13 2024 | Bucchigiri?! anime television series premiered on TV Tokyo and its affiliates |
| 2023 |
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
'The Forty Thieves' questline introduced in Assassin's Creed Mirage, featuring Ali Baba's daughter confronting the 40 thieves.
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| 2023 | Lebanese adaptation titled 'Al Thaman' (The Price) was released. |
| October 25 2023 |
The Magic of Scheherazade
The game's official soundtrack was released in Japan by Cassetron, including music from the overseas version.
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| June 21 2023 | An early version of the 'Recobbled Cut Mark 5' premiered on YouTube, featuring new animation and redrawn or recolored scenes. |
| February 2023 | Gilchrist initiated another revision of the Recobbled Cut, inviting professional animators to contribute new artwork and material. |
| 2022 |
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Indian fantasy TV series Ali Baba airs on Sony SAB, with Sheezan Mohammed Khan (season 1) and Abhishek Nigam (season 2) playing the main character.
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| December 5 2022 | Hindi remake 'Katha Ankahee' premiered on SET India. |
| October 14 2022 | First promo of the Hindi remake 'Katha Ankahee' starring Aditi Sharma and Adnan Khan was released. |
| July 14 2022 | Documentary film 'Explorer' was released, focusing on Fiennes' life and exploits. |
| 2021 | Publication of 'The Book of Travels', a two-volume work edited by Johannes Stephan and translated by Elias Muhanna, published by New York University Press. |
| 2021 | Publication of 'Hanna Diyab Tales, as Transcribed by Galland in his Diary' in The Annotated Arabian Nights, translated and edited by scholars including Paulo Lemos Horta and Yasmine Seale. |
| 2021 |
Al-Khansa'
Yasmine Seale was announced as the translator for al-Khansa's work in the Library of Arabic Literature series.
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| November 2021 |
Translations of One Thousand and One Nights
Yasmine Seale publishes the first English translation solely by a female author, including tales from Hanna Diyab and previously omitted stories with female protagonists.
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| March 1 2021 | Series premieres in Bangladesh on Nagorik and becomes available on Bongo BD streaming platform |
| 2020 |
Aladdin
A complete recording of the Aladdin opera was made at the Danish Radio Concert Hall, featuring performers Bror Magnus Tödenes, Denise Beck, Johann Reuter, Stephen Milling, and Hanne Fischer, with the Danish National Radio Symphony Choir and Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Schønwandt.
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| 2020 |
Ginny Fiennes
The Government of the British Antarctic Territory honoured her contributions by naming Mount Fiennes in recognition of her work in Antarctica.
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| November 2020 |
Waxworks
The 2019 film restoration was released on Blu-ray.
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| 2019 | Aladdin, a live-action musical fantasy film directed by Guy Ritchie, was released as a remake of Disney's 1992 animated feature. |
| 2019 |
Translations of One Thousand and One Nights
A three-volume Slovenian translation of One Thousand and One Nights was published, based on the Calcutta II version and translated by Mohsen and Margit Alhady.
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| 2019 |
Al-Khansa'
James Montgomery published 'Loss Sings' in the Cahiers Series, 32 by Sylph Editions, which likely relates to al-Khansa's poetry.
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| 2019 |
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Kayvan Novak portrays Ali Baba in the BBC/FX adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
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| 2019 |
Waxworks
Deutsche Kinemathek, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and L'Immagine Ritrovata undertook a restoration of the film.
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| 2019 |
Khidr
A scholarly revision of the Khidr-Kothar comparison suggested that Khidr is a syncretic form of Enoch and Eliyah, rather than being directly derived from the Ugaritic god Kothar-wa-Khasis.
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| 2019 | Appeared in a three-part National Geographic documentary 'Egypt with the World's Greatest Explorer' (also titled 'Fiennes Return to Egypt'), re-tracing his first expedition in Egypt from the 1960s, alongside his cousin actor Joseph Fiennes. |
| August 17 2019 | Richard Williams passes away at age 86, never having seen a finished version of The Thief and the Cobbler as he originally envisioned. |
| 2018 | Publication of scholarly articles 'Ḥannā Diyāb's Tales' by Ulrich Marzolph and Anne E. Duggan in Marvels & Tales journal, providing English translations of Galland's summaries of Diyab's tales. |
| 2018 |
Works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights
Nikita Gill published the poetry collection 'Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul', which includes a poem entitled 'Scheherazade the Clever'.
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| 2018 |
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Adventures of Ali Baba animated television series begins, produced by Shilpa Shetty Kundra and aired on Colors Rishtey, presenting a modern-day retelling of the folktale.
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| 2018 |
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A 3D-animated film adaptation of 'Alibaba and The Forty Thieves' was created by V. Murugan.
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| 2018 |
Mârouf, savetier du Caire
Revival of the 2013 Mârouf production at the Opéra-Comique.
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| November 25 2018 | Williams suggests the possibility of a Blu-ray release during a screening in London, noting European rights are available but North American rights are complicated. |
| 2017 | Critical edition of Diyab's autobiography published in Arabic as 'Min Halab ila Baris: Rihla ila Bilat Luwis Arrabi' 'Ashir', edited by Mamede Jarouche and Safa A.-C. Jubran. |
| 2016 |
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
'Alibaba' appears as the hacker alias of Futaba Sakura in the video game Persona 5.
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| 2015 | Publication of Hanna Diyab's autobiography 'D'Alep à Paris: Les pérégrinations d'un jeune syrien au temps de Louis XIV' in French translation, edited by Paule Fahmé-Thiéry, Bernard Heyberger, and Jérôme Lentin. |
| 2015 | Arabian Nights (As Mil e uma Noites), a three-part film directed by Miguel Gomes, was released. |
| 2015 |
Works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights
Salman Rushdie published Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a novel drawing inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights.
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| September 15 2015 | Series concludes broadcasting in Brazil on Band |
| August 3 2015 | Series begins broadcasting in Indonesia on antv as 'Shehrazat : Seribu Satu Malam' |
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