This multi-disciplinary comparative study of the transformation of a variety of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to look at the workings of narrative.

Chapter 1 Whose Story Is It? Sindbad the Sailor in literature and film, Wen-Chin Ouyang; Chapter 2 Texts of the Arabian Nights and Ideological Variations, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Natasha Romanova; Chapter 3 A Caliph and his Public Relations, Julia Bray; Chapter 4 Narrative Strategies in Popular Literature: ideology and ethics in tales from the Arabian Nights and other collections, Ulrich Marzolph; Chapter 5 The Art of Interruption: The Thousand and One Nights and Jan Potócki, Richard Van Leeuwen; Chapter 6 The House of Fiction and le jardin anglo-chinois, Peter L. Caracciolo; Chapter 7 Traces of the Thousand and One Nights in Borges, Evelyn Fishburn; Chapter 8 A Thousand and One Nights at the Movies, Robert Irwin; Chapter 9 Thousand and One Nights at the Komedie Stamboel: Popular theatre and travelling stories in colonial Southeast Asia, Matthew Isaac Cohen; Chapter 10 Emboldening Dinarzad: the Thousand and One Nights in contemporary fiction, Stephanie Jones; Chapter 11 Afterword: Beyond the Project;

Wen-Chin Ouyang is a lecturer in Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She works primarily on narrative and storytelling in classical and modern Arabic Literature.

Geert Jan Van Gelder is Laudian Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.