Hanna Diyab
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Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab (Template:Lang-ar; born circa 1688) was a Syrian writer and storyteller. He was long known only from brief mentions in the diary of Antoine Galland, but the discovery of his manuscript autobiography in 1993 dramatically expanded knowledge about his life. Recent reassessments of Diyab's contribution to Les mille et une nuits, Galland's hugely influential version of the Arabic One Thousand and One Nights, have argued that his artistry is central to the literary history of such famous tales as Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, despite Diyab never being named in Galland's publications.
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