{
  "id": 19474291,
  "title": "How the Author of Aladdin Got Erased From History",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/how-the-author-of-aladdin-got-erased-from-history",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-11T08:25:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/how-the-author-of-aladdin-got-erased-from-history/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}