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German Stories and Arabic Tales: 'From Cinderalla to Sindbad'

Goethe drew on the poet al-Mutanabbi and the Thousand and One Nights, and a special exhibition explores shared motifs.

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'From Cinderella to Sindbad': New Abu Dhabi exhibition to explore literary traditions from Germany and the Arab world


Cultural Foundation, but will also be made available online through a virtual gallery.
The exhibition
between the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Berlin
and the Arab-German Young Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
About 100 objects are included, including facsimiles, archival material, books and games, with some items on loan from institutions such as the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region and Kalima
Project for Translation, which will showcase German titles translated into
Arabic.
papyruses, works by Arab poet
Al Mutanabbi and German playwright and novelist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are also being explored, as well as the classic
Arabian Nights
more contemporary pop-up books and comics.

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