Scheherazade's children: global encounters with The Arabian Nights

The sea-born tale: eighteenth-century English translations of The thousand and one nights and the lure of elemental difference / Ros Ballaster

Re-orienting William Beckford: transmission, translation, and continuation of The thousand and one nights / Laurent Châtel

The collector of worlds: Richard Burton, Cosmopolitan translator of the Nights / Paulo Lemos Horta

The porter and portability: figure and narrative in the Nights / Elliot Colla

The rings of budur and Qamar al-Zaman / Wendy Doniger

White magic: Voltaire and Galland's Mille et une nuits / Roger Pearson

The Arabian nights and the origins of the Western Novel / Robert Irwin

"A covenant for reconciliation" Lane's Thousand and one nights and Eliot's Daniel Deronda / Paulo Lemos Horta

Translating destiny: Hugo von Hoffmanstahl's "Tale of the 672nd night" / Dominique Jullien

Borges and the missing pages of the Nights / Philip F. Kennedy

The politics of conversation: Denis Diderot, Elio Vittorini, Manuel Puig, Masaki Kobayashi, Vasily Grossman / Katie Trumpener

Sinbad the Sailor: textual, visual, and performative interpretations / Ferial J. Ghazoul

The Arabian Nights in British Pantomime / Karl Sabbagh

The Arabian Nights in traditional Japanese performing arts / Yuriko Yamanaka

"Nectar if you taste and go, poison if you stay": struggling with the Orient in Eighteenth-century British musical theater / Berta Joncus

Scheherazade, Bluebeard, and theatrical curiosity / Elizabeth Kuti

The Takarazuka revue and the fantasy of "Arabia" in Japan / Tetsuo Nishio

Thieves of the Orient: the Arabian nights in early Indian cinema / Rosie Thomas

Afterword: My Arabian superheroine / Alia Yunis.