99 Nights in Lugar and Aladdin. Inspired Thousand and One Nights in the West

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"The Thousand and One Nights" is now associated with new Western creations, both at the level of the novel and the cinema, where two remarkable works emerge, one belonging to the novel and the other " Of the seventh art. "

In a novel recently published in London entitled "99 Nights in Lugar" and received remarkable attention in the Western cultural press, its young Afghan author Jamil Gan Kushai began to feel influenced by the "Thousand and One Nights" atmosphere. In this novel he created in English for a kind of modernist treatment of this immortal literary influence .

This creative interaction with "One Thousand and One Nights" gave a unique taste to the new novel "99 Nights in Logar" and critics in the Western cultural press saw it as a new cultural addition in the creations of "magical realism" as demonstrated by "Thousand and One Nights" A creative and inexhaustible stock, and the source of the many gifts in the colors of writing and art.

This novel by the Afghan author Jamil Jean Kushai revolves around an Afghan boy who returns with his family living in the United States to ancestral land where the dog devoured his finger at the beginning of the visit to start an exciting and pleasant chase and bus with symbols and indications

Between the boy and the dog in the land of the ancestors and the tales grow up with a modern taste of the wonderful "thousand and one nights."

Aladdin's film, produced by Hollywood, takes place in Arab land, as the filmmakers imagined, as it became a striking phenomenon after it produced the lists of cinema revenues in North America and other countries in the West.

The 27-year-old Egyptian man who lives in Canada, Mena Masoud, is one of the stars of this film, which carries an important cultural and value message: "Being the same man."

It is not surprising that the young Egyptian artist Mina Masoud says that he has been associated with Aladdin since his childhood. "Many Egyptians through the generations and the journey of time were associated with this personality and other personalities created by the Eastern popular imagination in the immortal literary impact.

The night and night of her characters are present in the memory and taste of the various generations, both in Cairo where Mina Massoud was born or in Toronto, Canada, where he now lives and even in India, where the British actress Naomi Scott, who plays Princess Yasmin in this American film, Is a serious among critics in the West and gives delight to characters such as Blue Goose and Monkey Apo, not to mention the magic lamp.

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