Who is Scheherazade?

Scheherazade is a character from the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights. She is the narrator and protagonist of the frame story, which tells the tale of a Persian king who, after being betrayed by his wife, decides to marry a new bride every day and execute her the following morning.

Scheherazade, the daughter of the king's vizier, offers herself as the next bride and begins telling the king a story every night, but never finishes it, leaving the king curious and postponing her execution each morning in order to hear the end of the story. Scheherazade continues to tell stories for one thousand and one nights, at the end of which the king has fallen in love with her and spares her life, making her his queen.

Scheherazade's storytelling ability and intelligence are celebrated in Middle Eastern culture, and she has become a symbol of the power of storytelling and the importance of education and knowledge.