Past Event
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The 1001 Nights
330 Park Boulevard, San Diego, 92101
Cost: Free
Professor Michael Lundell of the University of San Diego discusses the origins, significance, and lasting influence of one the great works of world culture, One Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Nights), the collection of stories and folktales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. Take a magic carpet ride with Scheherazade, Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Sindbad the Sailor.
As part of the Muslim Journeys project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.