Violence against women, and a smart storyteller from the Arabian Nights, inspired John Adams' "dramatic symphony," featuring violinist Leila... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...

Some people feel like they’ve missed out because Mozart and Beethoven lived in a different century. But they’re overlooking the great artists who are in our midst today — composers writing music that ...

In Husain Haddawy’s translation of The Arabian Nights, Shahrazad turns to the embittered King Shahrayar on their wedding night to narrate 1001 tales of the Arabian Nights. In Husain Haddawy’s ...

SPRING LAKE, MI -- Living Books Theater, comprised of home-schooled students from throughout the Muskegon area, will perform the play "Scheherazade, Legend of the Arabian Nights" as a benefit for ...

Betrayed by his former wife, King Shahriyar vows to marry, love and then behead a new bride each night, never to be betrayed again. Having murdered thousands of women, he encounters the beautiful and ...

In an empire long ago there lived a king who discovered his wife sleeping with a palace slave. Crazed by jealousy he vowed that henceforth he would marry only for the length of a night and each ...

Edited by Philip F. Kennedy and Marina Warner. New York Univ., $25 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-4798-5709-8 Kennedy (Abu Nawas) and Warner’s (Stranger Magic) collection envisions the Arabian Nights ...

Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan.