"I'd like every single Arab to read One Thousand and One Nights. They [would] learn a lot from them, especially [because] these stories were written away from the influence of religion. It's interesting to see how we were open, how we had a dialogue with each other, how we wanted to understand, how we respected each other. There was a great dignity, and I'd like this to be restored again."
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Hanan al-Shaykh, "Scheherazade: From Storytelling 'Slave' To 'First Feminist'" at NPR (9 June 2013)
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