For readers, students and teachers
Questions about Aladdin, Hanna Diyab and the Arabian Nights
Short answers to the questions students ask most often when they read the Thousand and One Nights, drawn from Paulo Lemos Horta’s books and from what critics have said about them.
Hanna Diyab, Aladdin and Ali Baba
- Who was Hanna Diyab?
- Who created Aladdin?
- Where did Aladdin’s palace come from?
- What did Hanna Diyab see at Versailles?
- Was Aladdin based on a real person?
- Is there a real ring and lamp behind Aladdin?
- A ring and a lamp in Hanna Diyab
- Who first broke the story that Aladdin drew on Hanna Diyab’s own life?
- Did Antoine Galland write Aladdin?
- Where did Hanna Diyab learn to tell stories?
- What are the orphan tales?
- What are Diyab’s tales?
- Who created Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?
- How did Hanna Diyab meet Antoine Galland?
- What is Hanna Diyab’s memoir?
- Who was Paul Lucas?
- Does Aladdin have chapters?