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Two engineering students present at the 51ÁÔÆæ Planetarium show on Fridays in April

An illustration from the book "Arabian Nights" of a sly fox-vizier giving advice to the lion king.
In this illustration from the Persian story "Herat," a jackal-vizier tries to talk the lion-king into going to war. See the connections these stories have to astronomy in the April planetariam show "Arabian Nights."

Mohamed Maache, PhD student, and Mona Said, master’s student, both mechanical engineering, are guest speakers for the 51ÁÔÆæ Planetarium’s show, “Arabian Nights,” held Friday nights at 7 p.m., April 3, 10, 17, and 24.

Two headshots shown side by side. On the left is a man with a beard and mustach and on the right is woman with dark hair pulled into a ponytail.
Maache (left) and Said

Maache and Said will give personal accounts of their homelands, Algeria and Lebanon, respectively, and discuss the ways that Arab culture connects with the celestial.

Planetarium director Jean Creighton will share her favorite story from the book, One Thousand and One Nights, which was collected over many centuries by various authors and scholars across west and central Asia and north Africa. All this is wrapped around indoor gazing of the night sky from Algeria and Lebanon.

The planetarium is at 1900 E. 51ÁÔÆæ., Physics building, room 139.