Chop off her Head! The Arabian Nights from Antoine Galland to Mark Twain and Paul Poiret

This richly illustrated lecture by retired professor, Dr. Yahya Michot, will explore the origins of the Arabian Nights corpus, the diversity of its versions, its major English translations and their challenges, as well as the literary, artistic and other socio-cultural developments it triggered, in Islam, in Europe and in the U.S.