Arabic

عين الطاووس

Hanan al-Shaykh

صاحبة الدار شهرزاد

English

My Mother's Story

The Locust and the Bird

امرأتان على شاطئ البحر

إنّها لندن يا عزيزي

Beirut Blues

أكنس الشمس عن السطوح

Women of Sand and Myrrh

The Story of Zahra

Fiction

Poetry

Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

Biography or Memoir

Children's Book

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Hanan al-Shaykh  (Arabic: حنان الشيخ; born 12 November 1945, Beirut) is a Lebanese author of contemporary literature.

 Biography 
Hanan al-Shaykh was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1945, into a strict Shi'a
family. Her father and brother exerted strict social control over her during her childhood and adolescence. She attended the Almillah primary school for Muslim girls where she received a traditional education for Muslim girls, before continuing her education at the Ahliah school. She continued ...

Books by Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh has 9 distinct books on kotobli

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