Between 28th September and 27th October, Gyöngyi Oroszi spent a month-long research trip in Cairo at the Institut dominicain d’études orientales-ban (IDEO). With the help of the Arabic sources and secondary literature available at the library of IDEO, she examined the problem of khabar as a literary form. Based on the observations made during the examination, she described the ways how khabar was appropriated to be included in The Thousand and One Nights and analyzed how, due to the appropriation, the material found in the collection may be interpreted in a changed literary context.