In 1992, Disney’s animated Aladdin hit the big screen, and audiences fell in love with the adventures of an orphan—the “Diamond in the Rough”—who crossed paths with a flying carpet, a powerful genie, ...

Though Dadasaheb Phalke’s short film Raja Harishchandra (1913) is regarded as Indian cinema’s founding moment, a number of film historians believe that Indian cinema may have been born a decade before ...

Marina Warner warms to the RSC's production of Arabian Nights The first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into English, under the title Arabian Nights' Entertainments, instantly sparked a ...