The ‘palace’ of the Nights is based on 19th century editions from Egypt, India and Europe, that have served as the basis for all but one translation since Galland’s first.

This is an Arabian Nights spectacle that takes place mostly during the Arabian Days, under a sun that shimmers on palace turrets and turns brown-skinned men to bronze.

The Arabian Nights, translated by Husain Haddawy, based on the text edited by Muhsin Mahdi (Norton, $14.95). “For over a hundred years, we have known `The Arabian Nights’ through the tr… ...

­­The Grandmaster’s Palace in Valletta has been transformed into a majlis – a traditional Arabian space of dialogue, as part of a touring cultural concept that made a stop in Malta.