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Zarah Hussain on The Arabian Nights
Episode 3 of 5
The artist describes the inspiration of these legendary tales.
Zarah Hussain explains how The Arabian Nights inspired her as an artist. On discovering the book as a child, she found "the book was absolutely beautiful...There was a border of pink and blue arabesque flowers and a central image of a King wearing a gold crown and beautiful robes in conversation with a Queen similarly bedecked in robes. The floor and walls were covered in repeating geometric patterns. ...they came from a different world, a faraway place, but a place that was somehow familiar to me."
Producer: Smita Patel.
Last on
Wed 4 Apr 201822:45
BBC Radio 3
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- Wed 4 Apr 201822:45BBC Radio 3
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