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Who is Scheherazade?

August 3, 2020December 23, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Scheherazade is the narrator of the Arabian Nights (c. 1450), who tells stories night after night to keep her husband, the Sultan Schahriah, from strangling her at dawn.

Scheherazade tells her stories to her sister Dinarzade in the Sultan’s hearing.

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