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| Author | : Hanan al-Shaykh |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-04-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307831124 |
A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab world's leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.
| Author | : Ḥanān Shaykh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780044422754 |
With consummate story-teling skill al-Shaykh explores the lives of four Arab desert women in this bestselling novel
| Author | : Hanan Al-Shaykh |
| Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1992-07-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781417710843 |
Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel, a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom.
| Author | : Hanan al-Shaykh |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307766624 |
Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short stories--eleven of which are appearing in English for the first time--al-Shaykh expands her horizons beyond the boundaries of Lebanon, taking us 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. Often compared to both Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble, Hanan al-Shaykh is "a gifted and courageous writer" (Middle Eastern International).
| Author | : Hanan al-Shaykh |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2019-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525563040 |
On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their vacation unfolds, their complicated pasts seep through to the idyllic present. Both women spent their childhoods in Lebanon—Yvonne raised in a Christian family, Huda in a Muslim one—and they now find themselves torn between the traditional worlds they were born into and the successful professional identities they’ve created. Three months later, when Huda (a theater director from Toronto) visits Yvonne (an advertising executive) in London, a chance encounter with a man at Speaker’s Corner leads to profound repercussions for them both, as each woman undertakes her own quest for romance, revenge, and fulfillment. Witty and wry, The Occasional Virgin is a poignant and perceptive story of the tumultuous lives and sometimes shocking choices of two women successful in their careers but unlucky in love.
| Author | : Hanan Al-Shaykh |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2010-04-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1408810875 |
A richly woven and breathtaking memoir from the perspective of the author's own mother: a Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It is an extraordinarily brave act for a writer to undertake to inhabit, fully and sympathetically, the life her mother lived before she was born, particularly when her mother was no jewel of wifely virtue' J.M. Coetzee 'This is a book that wears its heart firmly on its sleeve, offering an insight into an unfamiliar culture and a cinematic love story' The Times Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She has never learned to read or write, though she longs to go to school. Stories, poetry and film are her passion - and a beautiful boy called Muhammad. They fall in love before Kamila is forced into an arranged marriage, despite her tears and screams. She is only fourteen years old. On her wedding night her first daughter is conceived; four years later, Hanan is born. Kamila and Muhammad continue to see each other in secret, risking their lives. It is eight years before Kamila can bring herself to divorce her husband, as to do so means leaving her daughters behind. Beautifully evoking the dusty streets of Beirut and life in Lebanon, this is a heartbreaking memoir of an extraordinary woman.
| Author | : Barbara Parmenter |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2009-09-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780292721722 |
Includes glossary and interview with the author.
| Author | : Hanan al-Shaykh |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2014-03-10 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1408174731 |
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. The tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising. The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. The great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless drama of human experience.
| Author | : Amal Amireh |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Developing countries |
| ISBN | : 9780815336068 |
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Ḥanān Shaykh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Beirut (Lebanon) |
| ISBN | : 9781863736862 |
'It is not surprising that The Story of Zahra is banned in several Arab countries. Subtle as it is, there is a subversive truthfulness to this portrait of a modern Arab family that is far removed from any bland ideal.'Sunday Times'In this impressive and eloquent novel, al-Shaykh has lifted the corner of a dark curtain.'Sunday TelegraphHaunted by memories of deception and betrayal, Zahra leaves Lebanon to visit her uncle in political exile in West Africa, taking with her the uncomfortable secrets of her seduction.Returning uncomforted to Beirut, Zahra re-enters a world of explosions, shootings, arbitrary death - and loveless marriage. What could possibly make more sense than to use her own body to divert a sniper from his task?Out of the terror of war, and of sexual confusion and abuse, comes a strange fulfilment of Zahra's search for ecstacy and for freedom. And every reader will dream with her of how life could be - if only the war were over.
