Paulo Lemos Horta is an assistant professor of Literature, Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. His books include Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights (Harvard University Press, 2017), Cosmopolitanisms (New York University Press, 2017; co-edited with Bruce Robbins), and The Arabian Nights: An Anthology (Everyman’s Library, 2014; co-edited with Wen-chin Ouyang).