Hakawatis: Reclaiming the Arabian Nights ...Kuwait

What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘Arabian Nights’? Aladdin and his magic carpet will almost certainly spring to mind. Perhaps Ali Baba and his thieves. At a push, you might think about the storyteller behind it all, Sheherazade. It’s likely that whatever you do think of has a Western lens on it, and is possibly shaped by Disney or the very British tradition of pantomime. "It's a woman who wins, a woman who's allowed to win eventually. And we rarely get that” The versions you’ve seen or heard or read will either sideline women or sexualise and exoticise them, and whatever you’ve consumed will be much less dark than the original. Now, all those version

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