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Arabian Nights is a medieval epic from the Middle East. It's also called 1001 Arabian Nights, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, or The Nights. Derived from Indian, Arabic and Persian traditional tales, Arabian Nights is about Scheherazade, who must tell stories to save her life.
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