By the author of Women of Sand and Myrrh, this is a collection of 17 short stories about contemporary Arab women. In the stories—11 of which appear here in English translations for the first time—al-Shaykh expands her horizons beyond the boundaries of Lebanon, taking readers throughout the Middle East, to Africa, and finally to London. Stylistically diverse, her stories are often about the shifting and ambiguous power relationships between different cultures—as well as between men and women.
© Mick Lindberg
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. View titles by Hanan al-Shaykh

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By the author of Women of Sand and Myrrh, this is a collection of 17 short stories about contemporary Arab women. In the stories—11 of which appear here in English translations for the first time—al-Shaykh expands her horizons beyond the boundaries of Lebanon, taking readers throughout the Middle East, to Africa, and finally to London. Stylistically diverse, her stories are often about the shifting and ambiguous power relationships between different cultures—as well as between men and women.

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© Mick Lindberg
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. View titles by Hanan al-Shaykh

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