Hanan al-Shaykh, author portrait
© Mick Lindberg

Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short-story collections I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops and One Thousand and One Nights; the novels The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about her mother, The Locust and the Bird. She was raised in Beirut, educated in Cairo, and lives in London.
The Occasional Virgin
One Thousand and One Nights
The Locust and the Bird
Only in London
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
The Story of Zahra
Beirut Blues
Women of Sand and Myrrh

Books

The Occasional Virgin
One Thousand and One Nights
The Locust and the Bird
Only in London
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
The Story of Zahra
Beirut Blues
Women of Sand and Myrrh