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Orientalist Silents Film Series: The Sheik 
June 11, 2009
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To kick off the Orientalist Silents Film Series, the Harry Ransom Center screens George Melford’s film The Sheik (1921), starring Rudolph Valentino. Sheik Ahmed (Valentino) desperately desires fiesty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious desert tent-palace. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his advances and yearns to be released. Only after being kidnapped by desert bandits does Diana realize she has grown to love Ahmed. Seating is free, but limited.
View a CLIP of the film on the Ransom Center’s YouTube channel. This program is in conjunction with The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West, on display through August 2. The year 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of Edward FitzGerald’s landmark translation of the poetry of the medieval Persian astronomer Omar Khayyám. These gemlike verses about mortality, fate, and doubt became an unprecedented popular phenomenon in England and America but have since fallen into obscurity. Featuring 200 items from the Ransom Center’s extensive collections, the exhibition narrates The Rubáiyát’s history through such items as Persian manuscripts, miniature editions, and illustrated parodies.
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June 11, 2009Times:
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