![]() ![]() Zahra uses Aladdin’s desire for vengeance against the drug-addled king’s brother-the sadistic power behind the throne-for his revolutionary parents’ deaths and the ill treatment of the peasantry. Other jinn quickly offer her a bargain from their ruler: he will free her from the lamp if she rescues his son, imprisoned in Aladdin’s home city-a deal with a strict time limit. Jinni Zahra, long imprisoned in her lamp, has languished for hundreds of years in a dead city as punishment for a mysterious transgression against her kind, one that also resulted in the betrayal of the warrior queen who last held the lamp, whom Zahra still mourns with the term of endearment “Habiba.” A young thief guided by a magic ring finds the city and lamp, freeing her. A Middle East–inspired fantasy version of “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.” ![]()
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