The Old Arabian Nights Guestbook
Name TOM O'DONNELL
Email abutom@aol.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? YES
Favourite Story? HAJI BABA GOES TO BROOKLYN
Comments ONLY KIDDING. THE MUSICAL KISMET DONE BY ROBERT MERRILL AND REGINA RESNICK IS THE BEST KISMET. MANTOVANI AND ORCHESTRA. THE MUSICAL IS A VOCABULARY LESSON. TODAY IF YOU MENTIONED GESTICULATE TO SOME ONE THEY THINK IT IS SEXUAL. OPENING A WEBSITE WWW.OPENSESEME.COM MISPELLED BUT CLOSE. IT WILL OFFER THE BEST OF THE GULF. IF YOU HAVE ANY MID EAST CONTACTS WITH PRODUCT WE CAN HELP.PERFUMES TO PALACES. BISMILLAH TOM O'DONNELL
Date March 2, 2001
Name Antonella
Email catinari@uol.com.br
Country Brazil
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story? Simbad
Comments I'm doing a little research because I work with 8years old children and I began to read the Arabian Nigths to them. I would like to find some information written in Spanish or Portuguese. can you help me? Thanks a lot...You have made a beautiful and very complete page.
Date February 18, 2001
Name Vanessa Unrau
Email nessa@arabia.com
Country
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story? Alladin and his magic lamp
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Date February 11, 2001
Name Stuart M. McWilliam
Country England
First Nights Encounter? yes
Favourite Story?
Comments Thank you,thank you,thank you,for such a comprehensive site. I found the answer to the query I had no problem.
Date February 3, 2001
Name Vittoria
Email queenvittoria@tin.it
Country Italy
First Nights Encounter? My god-father first gave me the 1001 Nights when I was 6
Favourite Story? The porter and the Three girls of Baghdad
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Date February 1, 2001
Name Colin
Email Colin@Housec.fsnet.co.uk
Country England
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story? Sindbad
Comments A truly amazing site John, well done!
Date January 27, 2001
Name Marina Raffaelli
Email marynus_11@hotmail.com
Country Argentina
First Nights Encounter? I found the book in my bookshelf
Favourite Story? the story of scheherazade
Comments I found your page fantastic!!!!, I really enjoyed my self very much to read it... I love this stories I can re-read them a thousen times and I will never get bored....I think this are full of magic and exaiment, otherwise they wouldn´t have last all this years..... I spent my free time trying to imagin scheherazade and she is the main character of my drawings...If you want I can send you some of them..just let my know... 1001 nights had cast a spell on me! marina
Date January 15, 2001
Name Martha Hella
Email hellamr@lps.wels.net
Country U.S.A
First Nights Encounter? good
Favourite Story? don't know
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Date January 4, 2001
Name Jenny
Email surfergurl43@hotmail.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? Library
Favourite Story? Aladdin
Comments Your web site is very helpful! I am a 7th grader, and i had a report to do for any Islam type subject...and this website was my main rescource! I looked at all of your links and eveyhitng! Thankx so much for makeing such a helpful page! Keep up the good worl
Date December 27, 2000
Name Gemma Arrowsmith
Email arrowsmith@surf3.net
Country England
First Nights Encounter? I am an actress currently playing the role of Shahrazad in a theatre production of Arabian Nights
Favourite Story? Not sure, the Little Beggar? The Wife who wouldn't eat?...
Comments A very detailed and interesting web page. It has been of great help to me as I have been researching The Arabian Nights and particularly Shahrazad for my performance. Would be glad of any further information. It is genuinely fascinating.
Date December 20, 2000
Name Rowan Atalla
Email rowan@infoconex.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments It is unfortunate that you have had your work stolen - I enjoyed looking through your page. I was unable to peruse very carefully, as I am at work. The images did not load - have you removed them? If so, I would be curious to see which illustrations were supposed to be there. It has been some time since I read any of the tales - although I intend to revisit them soon. thanks again Rowan
Date December 20, 2000
Name d.wiehe
Email dwiehe@tgn.net
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? performing with a symphony
Favourite Story? Scheherzazde
Comments I ran across your info on the web searching for program notes for our local symphony. I am an oboist with our local volunteer musical organization. My notes will be sent to many elementary schools to prepare the children for our upcoming Family concert of Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov's).
Date December 18, 2000
Name ahmad
Country australia
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments the stories ur talkin about r all persian stories but people think it belongs 2 arabs,becoz westerners think all middleaster are arabs.
Date December 10, 2000
Name Ben Clinger
Email bjclinger@hotmail.com
Country Ohio, U.S.
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments This is a wonderfully informative site. I have just spent the last two weeks trying to find some were to compare the various editions of the book and this site has done just that.
Date December 7, 2000
Name Anna katsina Friis
Email anna_katsina@hotmail.com
Country Denmark
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments I simply love your site, had been searching for hours when I found it - THANK YOU! I will use some of the information I found here in an important assignment, but will of course mention where this information comes from...
Date December 4, 2000
Name Ralph
Email ralphimwunderland@yahoo.de
Country suisse
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story? aladin
Comments Just doing some research on this great site! Greatings from switzerland
Date November 28, 2000
Name RON CARPENTER
Email NoOneSpezl@aol.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments Thank you for the in-depth research. I am using just a shred of the abundant information in a Sherlock Holmes story, "The Case of the Imitation Thief", about a man obsessed with tales of the Arabian Nights and who steals imitation jewelry to create his own treasure hoard. It won't make me any money but I like my Holmes stories to be interesting and fact-filled. Ron Carpenter San Antonio, Texas
Date November 24, 2000
Name eva amason
Country
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
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Date November 17, 2000
Name julie aaron
Email jaaaron@mail.usachoice.net
Country usa
First Nights Encounter? children's versions on television
Favourite Story? The Second Old Man's Tale, but I haven't read many yet
Comments Fabulous site!! I am writing a paper on the Nights for a World Lit class. Your site is extremely interesting and informative. I also love the musical background. Thank you!
Date November 1, 2000
Name MICHAEL
Email mbeshara55@hotmail.com
Country EGYPT
First Nights Encounter? FIRST NIGHT
Favourite Story? THE MINISTER NOUR EL DIIN AND HIS BROTHER SHAMS EL DIIN
Comments I LOVE ALF LAYLAH WE LAYLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date October 27, 2000
Name S. Kazmi
Email rage005@hotmail.com
Country Canada
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments This is a very well reasearched site as well as very informattive to it's readers. Your knowledge on this suject is very broad.
Date October 16, 2000
Name Iris
Email iris_wiho@hotmail.com
Country Australia
First Nights Encounter? Children stories
Favourite Story?
Comments Very impress with your site. I am in the process of finding all those children stories I read when I was young, (I want to up-grade to the literature translation version) and come aross your site when search 1001's publication on the net. Your research finding is very helpful to further my appreciation of a classics story.
Date October 12, 2000
Name Ruddy Isaac Pereda
Email Ruddyisaac@hotmail.com
Country Lima, Peru
First Nights Encounter? la historia del reschahriar y de su hermano schazaman
Favourite Story? la historia del rey omar-al-neman.........
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Date October 12, 2000
Name Julia
Email jadedsky@hotmail.com
Country
First Nights Encounter? when i was very young, i visited friends in turkey who had the book
Favourite Story? city of brass
Comments this is a really informative site - thank you! it helped me with research & summarized much information. it is also a very aesthetically pleasing site
Date October 9, 2000
Name David Mould
Email Dave_Mould_Esq@Yahoo.co.uk
Country England
First Nights Encounter? Buying Arabian Nights for 10p at a car boot sale
Favourite Story? Ali-baba
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Date October 7, 2000
Name Amir Isa al-Malek
Email oliverslang@msn.com
Country United States
First Nights Encounter? qui
Favourite Story? Lord of the Rings
Comments I too am interested in the Knights as I am dubbed a Knight with the Hutt River Province, Queensland Australia. I am currently seeking the "Ring of the Black Prince", said to have been a part of the English Knights of England and is said to be laid to rest there (peace be upon him). Interestng site, I thought about music for my site just before I visited your site, after looking at my place on the MSN search engine, and ran across your site at about 109th. Your can visit my site at http://themahditheatre.com. Peace be unto you!
Date October 6, 2000
Name Mike Johnson
Email writer@softcom.net
Country USA
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments I have an old version of the The Arabian Nights Entertainments published in 1827 by J&B Williams in Exeter (New Hampshire?). It's a little leatherbound pocket version in terrible shape with no front cover. Nearly all of the 251 pages are complete, however. Looking for a collector who might want to buy it. Any ideas? Thanks!
Date October 4, 2000
Name Ted
Email te1637@aol.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? TOday
Favourite Story? Mine
Comments I love your site. It makes me tingle in places you can't imagine. I'm feeling so so so in love. I can't think of anything else except One thousand and one ariabian nights.
Date October 1, 2000
Name Christine Zeeryp
Email Bastet@softhouse.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? As a child, my parents owned a set of books and Arabian Nights was part of the collection.
Favourite Story?
Comments Very nice website. Put together well. Sorry to hear about the thief. Hope you get them! Remember, copying is a warped form of appreciation. :)
Date September 28, 2000
Name Leanne & Shahrazad
Email leaholt@hotmail.com
Country England
First Nights Encounter? Eh?
Favourite Story? Alladin
Comments My mate Nicola is playing Shahrazad in a play this Christmas, anyone got any tips???
Date September 22, 2000
Name Mazrín Suhaini
Email bruschetta.76@ragingbull.com
Country Malaysia
First Nights Encounter? can' remember
Favourite Story? Story of the Prince Kamar-ez-Zemán and the Princess Budur
Comments I've just finished the Volume I of the story of Thousand Nights and One Nights by N.J. Dawood and now i'm trying hardly to finish the Volume II of the Arabian Nights. Anyway i enjoy reading the tales and love ur website very much. Thanks. Mazrín Suhaini.
Date September 21, 2000
Name Mary V. Hatfield
Email mhatfiel@ttu.edu
Country US
First Nights Encounter? Can't remember.
Favourite Story? The Fisherman and the Demon Set
Comments Actually I teach the Arabian Nights in a survey course for Sophompores called Literature before 1700. I am interested in the obviousNeo-Platonism of the edition of the Nights that I use--it is published by Norton, translated by Haddawy. The Tale of the Fisherman is a witty and ironic exploration of medieval ideas about Fortune and Destiny. You find the same musings in Chaucer, or Dante, Boethius of course. I am enjoying your stuff. Thanks Mary V
Date September 12, 2000
Name Alfonso Smith
Email Bob@blah.com
Country Persia
First Nights Encounter? cool
Favourite Story? the one with words
Comments very cool, too bad i can't read
Date August 17, 2000
Name Greta Little
Email n270052@vm.sc.edu
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? don't really remember
Favourite Story? ali baba
Comments enjoyed my visit tremendously
Date August 8, 2000
Name Mario
Email jeanniebottles@onemain.com
Country
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story? Hard to say all are good
Comments Enjoyed the site. I would like to invite you to visit my site at www.jeanniebottles.com Don't let the thieves steal anything in the cave.
Date July 12, 2000
Name Matthew S.
Email tacitus59@hotmail.com
Country The State of Maine in the USA
First Nights Encounter? The love of my life mentioned them to me
Favourite Story? Can't Choose, all are beautiful which I've read so far
Comments You have an excellent site, I've contacted you before regarding Pasolini's connection to the "Nights" and you responded promptly, so again thank you for your response. And thank you for maintaining this wonderous site about one of the most magical and enchanting works of literature I have read.
Date July 5, 2000
Name kazim
Email kazimmoinuddin@hotmail.com
Country england
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
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Date July 1, 2000
Name Joseph---the Sindbad
Email Captain_Sindbad@hotmail.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? what's aaaaahhhhh!!
Favourite Story? the fisherman and the jenie
Comments the arabian nights is one of the only thing that can let me get away from this most super borring thing we call he world so i love you for making this page keep adding to it please we love you
Date June 30, 2000
Name jim mcadams
Email mcadamsjim@msn.com
Country usa
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
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Date June 29, 2000
Name Rachel
Email StarFire33@onebox.com
Country United States
First Nights Encounter? Children's Book
Favourite Story? Don't make me choose!
Comments I had a children's book of the tales as a child. Now, at 15, I just finished Vol.1 of The Thousand Nights and One Night" a literal translation of the tales. I'm hooked! I'm working on a website featuring my artwork, 1 illustration and summary for each tale. Boy, it will take me a LONG time, but keep looking for it! Wish me luck!
Date June 22, 2000
Name Saleh
Country
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments It's very good if people are informed of the fact that 1001 nights is a translation of orginal PERSIAN tales into Arabic. It's 1001 persian nights if you decide to call it that way, the original Name was "ghessehaaye hezaaro yek shab" which is exactly the same thing as the tales of 1001 nights. It's just like saying that Colombus discovered India! How do you like that? :)
Date June 20, 2000
Name Dani
Email pwinces@aol.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? may2000
Favourite Story? sinbad
Comments I have to write a paper using some critical sources for this text, if you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated thank you
Date June 14, 2000
Name V.Chandramouli
Email mouli@npi.stpn.soft.net
Country India
First Nights Encounter? Yes
Favourite Story? Sindbad
Comments I have seen these stories in films and TV shows and I enjoyed them to the maximum.
Date May 23, 2000
Name Shahrzad Kashani
Email Shahrzad4@hotmail.com
Country Canada
First Nights Encounter? as a child
Favourite Story? every single one
Comments I just want to congratulate you on your excellent site. I knew every thing about the stories, but I didn't know much about shahrzad. You have so many great informations about The Arabian Nights and it helped me alot. Most of the information I got from other sources were untrue (like the TV version of Arabian nights). But Yours is with such details and with out the western influece. Thanks.
Date May 13, 2000
Name LINDSEY
Email Lindsey@lindsey29.freeserve.co.uk
Country wales
First Nights Encounter? as a small child
Favourite Story? every last one of them
Comments ive just watched the new bbc film called arabian nights and one of the stories was about alladin going into the burial site of the terracotta army is that one of the original stories? by the way love your site its very interesting thank
Date May 7, 2000
Name Darlene O'Neal
Email daoneal@worldnet.att.net
Country USA`
First Nights Encounter? 1969
Favourite Story? Aladin
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Date April 30, 2000
Name Vanessa
Email stuness.harv@virginnet.co.uk
Country England
First Nights Encounter? My fathers bedtime stories
Favourite Story?
Comments Love the music - it really added atmosphere. You're wasted at Winfrith John!
Date April 29, 2000
Name Karin
Email schleichdi@gmx.net
Country Germany
First Nights Encounter? as a child
Favourite Story? Sindbad
Comments When I was in Yemen two years ago I learned that Sindbad either was a Yemenite - or at least the people there believe this. They are very proud of their famous ancient superstar. I even saw a house's door with the Sindbad face out of the japanese animated cartoon painted on it.
Date April 21, 2000
Name Rosalía Montes
Email rmonteslew@infovia.com.ar
Country Argentina
First Nights Encounter? no
Favourite Story? all of them
Comments Now I'm working in a Sinbad Story edition for children between 11 and 14, so I need to know all about editions,notes, articles etc. Your page is very useful for my task, specially concerning to Sindbad and the works of art related to The Thousand... Thanks for everything you've done. Rosalía Montes
Date April 16, 2000
Name Nora J. Warren
Email kleiaa@aol.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? When I was 6
Favourite Story? Aladdin
Comments I found your site QUITE by accident but once I did and heard the BEAUTIFUL Rimsky-Korsikov score I stayed and read your page just so I could hear the whole thing. It is by far one of my FAVORITE classical pieces and has been for a long time. Ever since I was a little girl I have loved "Arabian Nights" movies. I still do. (In fact at the end of this month here in the USA they are playing a new version of Arabian Nights) To this day, even as an artist, I draw "arabian themes" such as women in harem outfits and men in arabian costumes. Also, because my middle Name is Jean, I ended up with the nickName "genie" or Jeannie as in Barbara Eden in I dream of... :-) I used to wish when I was small that I really were a Genie. To grant some Master (or Mistress :-)) whatever he or she wished. I found your page extremely informative and well worth a look see. :-) I even recommended your page to a friend of mine who is also a classical music lover and hopefully, in the process, will stay and listen to the score AND read your pag
Date April 6, 2000
Name Vincent Demers
Email russiste@hotmail.com
Country Québec
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments Merci pour ce site très intéressant. Je fais actuellement une recherche sur les Nuits et ce site m'a donné beaucoup d'idées. Suggestion: peut-être pourrais-tu considérer l'excellente traduction de Jamel Eddine Bencheikh et André Miquel de contes choisis des Nuits. Ils reprennent les manuscrits originaux et le meilleur des traductions existantes. Bien sûr, c'est en français. (1991) Les Mille et Une Nuits I ISBN 2-07-038399-7 (1991) Les Mille et Une Nuits II ISBN 2-07-038400-4 (1996) Les Mille et Une Nuits III ISBN 2-07-039385-2 Éditions Gallimard, Folio classique
Date March 7, 2000
Name Joseph M. DeCarlo
Email Jdecarlo21@cs.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? Bowdlerized version as a child
Favourite Story? Each one is interesting
Comments This site has been both interesting and helpful. I enjoy The Arabian Nights regardless. But, my research for Narrative Psychology brought me here. I enjoy all forms of Mythology. Dreams and imagination never rust.
Date January 9, 2000
Name Babs Kipp
Email drbkipp@hotmail.com
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? No, have read some of these stories from childhood.
Favourite Story? All I've read so far!
Comments Am compilling a Research Packet on the "Arabian Nights Tales". Love your web site, song- "The Festival of Bagdad" Thanks!
Date December 31, 1999
Name Renata
Email tata@correio.com
Country Brazil
First Nights Encounter? yes
Favourite Story? the ebony horse
Comments Congratulations for your site! If I may add a suggestion, I think it would be great if you could write something about Marc Chagall(1887-1985), who has his own set of wonderful illustrations on the 1001 arabian nights. Have you seen them? Happy new year!
Date December 7, 1999
Name Ralph E Vaughan
Email ralphv2k@crosswinds.net
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? No
Favourite Story? Sinbad the Sailor
Comments Thanks for putting together such an interesting and informative site. Too many people these days forget the contribution of Arabic literature to today's world culture. Discovering a book of Arabian Nights tales was quite an influence upon me. I made it possible for people to travel from my personal website (www.crosswinds.net/~ralphv2k) to yours via a graphic link...hint, it's the bar that looks like something out of the Arabian Nights.
Date December 1, 1999
Name Edith Suyama
Email esuyama@hawaii.edu
Country USA
First Nights Encounter? Nope
Favourite Story? fisherman and the ginie
Comments found you by chance; was looking for plot summaries to check on suspected plagiarsim
Date November 15, 1999
Name Michael Collins
Country Canada
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
Comments Have been a Nights fan since childhood and now in midlife have the pleasure of owning a complete Limited Edition set of Burton's translation (10 original volumes plus 7 supplementary volumes). I dip into them often. Also enjoy editions geared towards children (mainly for their illustrations). For the best single book about the Nights read: The Arabian Nights: a Companion, by Robert Irwin (Penguin, 1994) which gives brilliant insights into the sociological, folkloric and linguistic issues surrounding these tales which continue to amuse and delight people of all nations, backgrounds, and ages.
Date November 10, 1999
Name Mike Loebl
Country
First Nights Encounter?
Favourite Story?
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Date September 30, 1999
Name BHUVA NARAYAN
Email BHUVA@BIGFOOT.COM
Country INDIA
First Nights Encounter? GRANDMOTHER'S STORIES
Favourite Story? ALLADIN AND 40 THIEVES
Comments GREAT WEBSITE! VERY HELPFUL FOR MY RESEARCH ON MAHFOUZ
Date August 18, 1999
Name Jane Gregory
Email JBUGregory@aol.com
Country USA -- New York
First Nights Encounter? childhood -- library
Favourite Story? the Nights history
Comments What a rich treasure of a site! Thanks for supplementing my research.