The Beiruter

Beyrouth Livres returns for its fourth edition, bringing together more than 40 authors, illustrators and artists from nine countries to celebrate literature, multilingualism and Mediterranean cultural exchange across Lebanon.

A forgotten manuscript revealed Hanna Diyab, a Maronite from Aleppo, as the Christian storyteller whose tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba helped shape One Thousand and One Nights and became part of global culture.