SALMAN Rushdie’s tenth novel opens in Arab Spain in 1195, when disgraced court physician and philosopher Ibn Rushd takes in the mysterious 16-year-old orphan Dunia.

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JOHN STEPHENS, formerly a writer, director and producer on smash-hit TV shows The OC and Gilmore Girls says, “It really is a Golden Age of television right now.

Anthony Hopkins is set to play a villainous sorcerer in Chuck Russell's 'Arabian Nights'.