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How the Author of Aladdin Got Erased From History

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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

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