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How the Author of Aladdin Got Erased From History

Hanna Diab, an eighteenth-century Syrian adventurer, dreamt up one of the world’s best-known stories, Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp, from the facts of his own life. But Diab has been neglected and uncredited these last three hundred years. Intriguing archival discoveries and

How the Author of Aladdin Got Erased From History

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