In Arabian Nights (subtitled A caravan of Moroccan dreams) is a travel book by Anglo-Afghan author Tahir Shah illustrated by Laetitia Bermejo. which takes up where his previous book The Caliph's House leaves off, recounting, among much else, events at Dar Khalifa, the Caliph's House, in Casablanca where the Shah family have taken up residence.
Shah frequents the Café Mabrook, which becomes for him the "gateway into the clandestine world of Moroccan men" and is told "if you really want to get to know us, then root out the raconteurs". He also hears of the Berber tradition that each person searches for the story within their heart.
Events at home are interwoven with Shah's journeys across Morocco, and he sees how the Kingdom of Morocco has a substratum of oral tradition that is almost unchanged in a thousand years, a culture in which tales, as well as entertaining, are a matrix through which values, ideas and information are transmitted.
Shah listens to anyone who has a tale to tell. He encounters professional storytellers, a junk merchant who sells his wares for nothing, but insists on a high payment for the tale attached to each item and a door to door salesman who can obtain anything, including, when Shah requests the first "Benares" edition of A Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton, a translation that the author's father Idries Shah had once given away. As he makes his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakech, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, he collects a treasury of stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters, reveal fragments of wisdom and an oriental way of thinking.
"1001 Arabian Nights" is a song by Dutch band Ch!pz, from their 2004 album The World of Ch!pz. The song remained at number one in the Dutch singles chart for four weeks. It reached number two in Austria, and number three in Germany and Switzerland.
Filmed on location in India, the band travel to a Middle Eastern city where a magic lamp has been stolen by a thief. They battle the bodyguards and while Rachel and Cilla distract the thief (who has wished to become the world's richest man and having had the jester turned into a goat) by dancing for him, Kevin and Peter steal the lamp and the band escape. The city is then restored with the return of the lamp and the thief is arrested while the band bid farewell to the people.
One Thousand and One Nights, or 1001 Nights, may refer to:
Arabian Nights (Portuguese: As Mil e uma Noites) is a 2015 international co-produced three-part film directed by Miguel Gomes and based on the One Thousand and One Nights. It was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected to be shown in the Wavelengths section of the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. Part two of the film, Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One, was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
The film is set in Portugal, with the plot drawing from current events. The structure of the film is based on the One Thousand and One Nights collection of fantasy tales.
[Verse 1:]
Light over the city bright
I take flight on a magic carpet visually scanning this metropolis
Graphite and philly guts through the cats of silly sluts
Move makes straight fakers and the pick pocket
People setting their wakes too late for them to stop it
Sheeq with the star cheek
Navigate through city streets
New Jerusalem days Mega nights
Wrap like a turban tight
Some are tall for those who wanna spar
Meet up with the caravan
Sinister voices stand at command
>From Flatbush Ave. to Pickadilly Circuit
We work this double edge to split the head of serpents
To the finish which is my death breathe m last breath
I'm on a quest for the answer to this
Before the seas swallow the continents and we cease to exist
The crown jewel what I possess
In my heart the emerald four star general flips the art
[Hook:]
One thousand and one Arabian nights
March through your city at night with torch lights [x4]
[Verse 2:]
3 wishes granted by the genie in the bottle
Cause I plucked it with my index I thought that it was hollow
Give me world peace and a field of green to blaze
Complicated days some nights got trapped in a maze
Last wish to be immortal
Won't diss the classic
No melted plastic
In the attic pure static
I stand within' the depths of the sand of the Sudan
Shabaam put the mic in my hand
Sahdeeq technique open sesame Allie Baba
Type jewels fool I drop on the street
Gems for them
Way to eat for my fleet tryin' to make ends meet
Bring heat with phat tracks eliminate critics on the didick
Talking ka ka your worth nada
Your style plaga
Played out like stadas
We hotta
Leave shit chopped like Benny Honas
I promise maintainin' composure puffin' on the scommas
[Hook]
[Verse 3:]
Three wise men bring gifts of hip hop hits
You're vibeless
Sinister be survivalist
Marvelous sound of the charge of the burgade
Where's my change
Dues to pay
Arabian nights on camels start the journey through the desert
Median, Mecca, Style injector
Clash Of The Titans
Verbally sword fightin'
Enter the gates of the birth city called Pelon
You get peed on
Makin' moves without your heat on
Don't get it twist
I leave the cypher with split lips Shadeeq style, sick
Call the specialist
Unwrestle this
Red tape make thick with politics
But if we don't get somethin'
Gold or platinum type status
Whenever double S bless the apparatus [echo]
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