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Arabian Nights: Volume 1

By: Marty Ross
Narrated by: Zahra Ahmadi, Raghad Chaar, Omid Djalili, Walles Hamonde, Mandana Jones, Adam Sina, full cast
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Publisher's Summary

Please note this drama contains some explicit content.

This multicast dramatisation of Arabian Nights: Volume 1 is an Audible Original reenvisioning of three iconic tales - with a twist. 

Adapted by the great Marty Ross, whose previous audio dramas include Romeo and Jude, Dark Shadows, Doctor Who and Treasure Island, listeners can expect to hear Scheherazade, Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves and Julnar of the Sea as they've never done before. 

Step out of your comfort zone and indulge in the dark and fantastical world we've created. Travel with Mermen across the White City, go in search of treasures in hidden caves with Ali and Kasim and let yourself be guided by Scheherazade’s vision as she gives in to a deadly romance with Sultan Shahriya. 

About the stories

In Scheherezade, a woman finds herself the object of desire of a powerful Sultan with murderous desires. Her only chance at saving her life is by using the one power she herself possesses: her gift for telling enchanting stories, the very stories that follow in this drama.... 

Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves tells the tale of an impoverished husband and wife whose lives change drastically when husband Ali discovers the cave where a local gang of bandits are hiding their treasure. A happy ending? Not quite, as the money brings dangerous complications in the form of the greed of Ali's brother and sister-in-law and the determination of the bandits not to be stolen from. Can Ali save himself - or will his wife, Marjana, have to do all the work - in this taut romantic thriller? 

In Julnar of the Sea, a merwoman finds the love of a mortal King and they produce a son, Prince Badr Basim. Julnar will have to look out for her son, Badr, as, true to his undersea birthright, he seeks out the love of Princess Jawhera of the Merfolk. She is haughty and her father King Es Semendel positively hostile, casting Badr into a dramatic odyssey which will take him to the island of a beautiful sorceress who makes literal pets of her lovers. Can Julnar and her brother, Salim, find and save Badr in time? 

The cast:

This drama features Omid Djalili (The Mummy, Gladiator, The Omid Djalili Show), Abraham Popoola, Adam Sina, Alyssa Kyria, Anoushka Rava, Atilla Akinci, Bamshad Abedi-Amin, Betsabeh Emran, Daniel Naddafy, David Ahmad, Gisele Payvandi, Ian Abeysekera, Jonathan Morrison, Mandana Jones, Michael Franklin, Mitra Djalili, Nezar Alderazi, Philip Arditti, Raghad Chaar, Richard Reed, Pezh Maan, Tara Jaffar, Walles Hamonde, Zahra Ahmadi and Hemi Yeroham.

Public Domain (P)2018 Audible, Ltd.

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Cheap sexual stories. Not the original Arabian Night

I’ve heard the real Arabian Night stories, like AliBaba and Sinbad adventures. But this one is misleading. It’s a fake one. Stories about nudity, sex and other things that I know are an ill knowledge about Arabian.

Fit as The Arabian Naughty!! Fully not recommended for those who look for a beautiful stories of the real Arabian Night.

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Unpolished

The sound was pretty off. The consistency of the volume was poor for most of it and terrible for the rest.
Sometimes the accents sounded fake, forced and unrealistic: hopefully I'm wrong about that though.
The translators are not, I think, the most polished of wordsmiths unfortunately.

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the accents are stupid..

you will repeat some lines many times cuz some actress or actor thought it is cool to speak with fake stupid accent..
been living in the middle east all my life..no one speaks these stupid accents they make...

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Delightfully perverted

1001 nights is a series of short stories from the Islamic "Golden age". From a sex oppresed and therefore obsessed people its absolutely Filthy, Misogynistic and even a little Misandristic, And not for kids.

A Sultan cheats on his wife only to be cheated on himself and so decides that all woman are trash. He becomes a serial killer and rapist. Forcing himself on a new girl each night he cuts their heads off in the morning. One girl fights to survive by telling him stories each night but leaving him with a cliffhanger so he has reason not to murder her the next morning.

Its great and its presentation here is too!

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Amazing, pure and simple

i absolutely loved this audiobook, captivating and immersive, cast and production crew...amazing, thank you all

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Not done in the original text

I had a lot of interest in how they were describing things, actions and happenings back when the text was written.
But it is all done in a modern voice and modern idioms, which was a little disappointing.

The performances and the story was rich and captivating. On to volume 2

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Very entertaining

I really enjoyed this and I’m looking forward to the next one. A terrific story and the cast is amazing- a great performance

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The real Arabian Nights

To hear the original versions was an eye opener, more graphically and erotica then I had been led to be.

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Magical and visceral

An outstanding audiobook of a wonderful and timeless story. When will we have the Volume 2? The voices were haunting and the sound effects oneiric.

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