Hanan Al-Shaykh
Author · 11 books
Hanan Al-Shaykh (Arabic: حنان الشيخ) is a Lebanese journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Born into a conservative Shia' Muslim family, she received her primary education in Beirut and later she attended the American College for Girls in Cairo. She began her journalism career in Egypt before returning to Lebanon. Her short stories and novels feature primarily female characters in the face of conservative religious traditions set against the backdrop of political tensions and instability of the Lebanese civil war.
Books
امراتان على شاطئ البحر
2003
The Things I Would Tell You
British Muslim Women Write
2017
Only in London
2001
The Locust and the Bird
My Mother's Story
2009
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
1994
The Occasional Virgin
2002
Women of Sand and Myrrh
1982
One Thousand and One Nights
2011
بريد بيروت
1992
Beirut Blues
1992
The Story of Zahra
1980
