A "mind-blowing revision" of scholars' understanding of the origins of the Aladdin story is underway When the new live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic, Aladdin, hits theaters on Friday, ...

Disney‘s Aladdin character came out in 1992, and some of the inspirations behind the animated features speak to the early ’90s. But the tale of Aladdin dates back way longer than that, and he might ...

The author of The Book of Travels (Kitāb al-Siyāḥah), Ḥannā Diyāb, became known to Western scholarship more than a century after his death, when his name was discovered in the diaries of Antoine ...

The Walt Disney Company officially began in 1923. Since then, the company has managed to create a dynasty. Disney has an untouchable reputation when it comes to producing and creating films. Disney ...

The creators of the Disney children's musical "Aladdin, Jr." likely didn't mean for the hero to be upstaged by a whip-smart book worm of a young bride. And we're not even talking about his beloved, ...

When the new live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic, Aladdin, hits theaters on Friday, it will be just the latest step in the very long history of the tale — one with surprising origins.