Scheherazade Scheherazade () is a major character and the storyteller in the frame story, frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. Name According to modern scholarship, the name ''Scheherazade ...

is a major character and the storyteller in ''One Thousand and One Nights''. Scheherazade, Shéhérazade, or variants, may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Shéhérazade'' (1963 film), 1963 French adventure film * ''Shéhérazade'' (2018 film), 2018 French film * 1001 Nights (1990 film), released in some markets as ''Sheherazade'' * ''Şehrazat'' (film), 1964 Turkish thriller * ''Shahrzad'' (TV series), Iranian romantic and historical drama series * "Scheherazade", episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' season 8

Music

* ''Shéhérazade'' (Ravel), two works by Ravel ** ''Shéhérazade'' (Frederica von Stade recording), 1981 * ''Scheherazade'' (Rimsky-Korsakov), a symphonic suite later adapted for ballet * ''Scheherazade'', 1848 classical composition work of Robert Schumann as part of ''

Album for the Young ''Album for the Young'' ('), Op. 68, was composed by Robert Schumann in 1848 for his three daughters. The album consists of a collection of 43 short works. Unlike the ', they are suitable to be played by children or beginners. The second part, st ...

'' * ''Sheherazade'', a 1915 piano piece by Karol Szymanowski * ''Sheherazade'' (Ornella Vanoni album), 1995 * ''Scheherazade'', a 2016 album by

Freakwater Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Louisville, Kentucky, with one co-founding member living in Chicago. Freakwater is known for the lead vocals of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin, who mix harmony and melody in idiosyncratic di ...

* ''Shahrazad'', a 2023 album by Delara

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Shéhérazade'', a 1947 play by

Jules Supervielle Jules Supervielle (16 January 1884 – 17 May 1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet and writer born in Montevideo. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. He opposed the surrealism movement in poetry and rejected automatic wr ...

People

* Shahrzad (Reza Kamal) (1898–1937), Iranian dramatist and playwright *

Şehrazat Şehrazat Kemali Söylemezoğlu (born 3 September 1952), known by her stage name Şehrazat or Şehro, is a Turkish television personality, businesswoman, philanthropist, composer, songwriter, record producer, occasional jazz, and pop music sing ...

(Şehrazat Kemali Söylemezoğlu, born 1952), Turkish singer-songwriter *

Rachel Sheherazade Rachel Sheherazade Barbosa (born 5 September 1973) is a Brazilian journalist. Education Rachel Sheherazade has a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. Career Rachel Sheherazade began her career in televis ...

(born 1973), Brazilian journalist * Shaharzad Akbar (born 1987), Afghan human rights activist * Shahrazad Ali (born 1954), American author * Sheherazade Goldsmith (born 1974), British environmentalist, jeweller and columnist * Shahrzad Mirgholikhan (born 1977), Iranian whistleblower * Shahrzad Mojab (fl. from 1979), Iranian-Canadian academic * Shahrzad Rafati (born 1979), Iranian-Canadian media executive * Shahrzad Seifi (born 1986), Iranian producer and actress *

Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson (born 27 December 1968) is a Franco-Iranian executive. She is the CEO of McCourt Global. Biography Daughter of the journalist and Editor-in-Chief of ''Kayhan'', Mehdi Semsar (1929–2003), and of Guity Elah ...

(born 1968), Franco-Iranian executive * Shahrzad Sepanlou (born 1975), Iranian-American singer *

Shérazad Reix Shérazad Reix (née Benamar; born 3 April 1989) is a French former tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 204 in singles and 219 in doubles. In her career, she won seven singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In May 20 ...

(born 1989), French tennis player

Other uses

* Shahrazad (crater), on Saturn's moon Enceladus *

Scheherazade (yacht) ''Scheherazade'' is a motor superyacht built by Lürssen Yachts of Germany. With a length of 140 m (460 ft), it is currently one of the longest motor yachts in the world. While being built, it used the project name "Lightning". The e ...

, launched 2019 * 643 Scheherezade, a minor planet orbiting the Sun *

Scheherazade New Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional Naskh styled font for Arabic script created by SIL, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports a wide range of Arabic-based writing system encoded in Unicode. The font off ...