Not by Marlene Monteiro Freitas

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photo Stephanie Grape Because he was deceived, the Sultan swore to have executed every morning the woman whom he married the day before. Sheherazade volunteered to marry him and told him every night a tale which she interrupted the end of the morning, thus postponing his execution. In Les Mille et Un Nuits, masterpiece of Arab literature, Marlene Monteiro Freitas sees an exercise of survival. From the oral tradition, these tales have kept the en…