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Hanan al-Shaykh is a critically acclaimed Lebanese writer, who currently lives in London. Growing up in a restricted patriarchal environment created by her father (a devout Shia Muslim) and brother, she started to write to express her freedom.I accompanied my friend and Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the most acclaimed award-winning writers in the contemporary Arab world whose work has been translated into 21 languages and is now published around the world. She is the author of eight novels, notably, The Story of Zahra; Women of Sand and Myrrh; Beirut Blues, described by Salman Rushdie as a sensuous, unsentimental.
The author fictionalizes the From an early age, Hanan al-Shaykh felt the urge to be different, to have her own opinion on and decisions in life. Both Hanan’s innate urge to be different and desire to challenge injustice and unfairness molded her into the rebel she is.
Michael Berkeley's guest is 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.