SHEHERAZADE
“In times gone by when there were still kings, djinns and monsters on this earth, there lived on the islands of India and China two princesses, and they were sisters. The eldest was named Scheherazade and the youngest Dunyazad. But their father was killed in a war and they lost all their fortune and were sold into slavery. They were taken to Baghdad, where Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, the enlightened, reigned. It was the beginning of the Golden Age of Islam…”
SAPHO'S VOICE
SECOND NIGHT
SAPPHO OF LESVOS, 669 BC
A woman's voice:
"In the long-forgotten times when there were still kings, djinns and monsters on this earth, there lived on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, two princesses, and they were sisters. The eldest was called Sappho and the youngest Echo...
ODETTE'S VOICE
“At the time when King Louis XIV, called the “Sun King”, reigned in Versailles, there lived in the city of Paris in France a young man named Antoine. And in the city of Aleppo, in Syria, there was a young girl namedAmira. This is their story, how they discovered Love, the Orient and found the tales of the 1001 Nights, praised be Allah for all times past and to come...