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Al-Ahram Weekly 21 - 28 January 1999 Issue No. 413 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 21 - 28 January 1999 Issue No. 413
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Egypt Region International Focus Economy Opinion Culture Features Living Travel Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters A thousand and one pages
WILL THE crowds browsing through the stalls when the Book Fair opens on the 26th keep in mind the fact that each tome they glance at is the fruit of a journey worthy of one of Sheherazad's tales? One imagines A Thousand and One Nights was first set down on paper at the behest of a few individuals who preferred the ease of reference afforded by having the book in their private libraries to the hustle and bustle of cafés where crowds gathered to hear the storytellers spin their tales. Later, however, several editions were produced at the Amiriya Press, established by Mohamed Ali in Bulaq, near the site where the World Trade Centre stands today. This is the cover of the second edition, introduced and edited by Sheikh Mohamed Qitta El-Adawi, and inscribed with the name of Abdel-Rahman Rushdi, to whom Khedive Said granted the Pressworks, and with the date: 1279 Anno Hegirae, or 1863 AD.
(see New age new fare)
