Unable to mention her by name, Clapton titled the track after the heroine of a Persian epic called The Story Of Layla And Majnun, about a doomed romance. Tragedy haunts the recording in other ways.

Starring Avinash Tiwary and Triptii Dimri, it is a modernized version of the classic folklore, Layla and Majnun. The movie is ...

We got so far with it. Someone had given me a book called The Story Of Layla And Majnun, which was a Persian story about being driven mad by falling in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman.

An enchanted and skewed digital dream world, Strange Attractor inverts the Adam and Eve story and re-visions the Persian/Arabian tale of Layla and Majnun. Sufi love madness meets media prophecy.

And as the West had its Romeo and Juliette and the East its Layla and Majnun, the North African Kingdom witnessed the story of Sol Hachuel, aka Lalla Suleika and her alleged beloved. The 19th ...