Hanan Al-Shaykh (Author of One Thousand and One Nights)
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Hanan Al-Shaykh


Born
in Beirut, Lebanon
November 12, 1945

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 10,637 ratings · 1,291 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
One Thousand and One Nights
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The Locust and the Bird: My...
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The Story of Zahra
3.43 avg rating — 1,212 ratings — published 1980 — 22 editions
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Women of Sand and Myrrh
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3.22 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — published 1982 — 33 editions
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Only in London
2.84 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2001 — 24 editions
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I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
3.55 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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The Occasional Virgin: A Novel
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Beirut Blues
3.41 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions
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صاحبة الدار شهرزاد
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The Women's Swimming Pool
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“I don’t want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don’t want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I’m not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”
― Hanan Al-Shaykh, Beirut Blues
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“Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?
Then all we are left with are stories.”
― Hanan Al-Shaykh
tags: stories
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“Just remember what Satan says: "I teach men what I learn from women!”
― Hanan Al-Shaykh, One Thousand and One Nights
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