When we were young, we used to watch Disney films like Cinderella, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Aladdin. At the time, little did we know that such stories had much older, deeper roots. Aladdin’s, for instance, is a Middle Eastern folk tale associated with One Thousand and One Nights, not part of the original corpus, and yet Antoine Galland heard it from Hanna Diyab and added it to the French edition. The importance of such stories lies not just in their content, but also in the way they are told. Above all, such stories withstand the test of time.
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