query: original_language_of_work arabian nights and days
supports: One Thousand and One Nights ("kitb alf layla wa-layla") is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as "The Arabian Nights' Entertainment". Arabian Nights and Days ( 1979 ) is a novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz , winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature . The novel serves as a sequel and companion piece for One Thousand and One Nights and includes many of the same characters that appeared in the original work such as Shahryar , Scheherazade , and Aladdin . Aladdin ("") is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" ("The Arabian Nights"), and one of the best knownthough it was actually added to the collection in the 18th century by Frenchman Antoine Galland. Arabic (' or ' ) is a Central Semitic language that was first spoken in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the "lingua franca" of the Arab world. Arabic also is a liturgical language of 1.7 billion Muslims. It is one of six official languages of the United Nations. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, and from northwestern Arabia to the Sinai in the south. Arabic literature (/ ALA-LC: "al-Adab al-Arab") is the writing, both prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ""Adab"", which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment. Egypt (; ', , "Kimi"), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia, although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt. It is the world's only contiguous Afrasian nation. Naguib Mahfouz ("", ; December 11, 1911  August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films. Scheherazade , or Shahrazad (""), is a character and the storyteller in "One Thousand and One Nights". This book includes the tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba and many more. Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646  February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of "One Thousand and One Nights" which he called "Les mille et une nuits". His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a significant influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Jorge Luis Borges has suggested that Romanticism began when his translation was first read. 
candidates: arabic egyptian french israel
answer: arabic