Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh was born on 12 November 1945 in Beirut, into a Shia family. From the age of sixteen she published texts in the daily an-Nahār, then left to study at the American College for Girls in Cairo. Back in Beirut, she worked as a journalist at the women's magazine al-Hasnāʾ and at an-Nahār. Shortly after the start of the civil war, she left Lebanon with her husband and their two children, lived for several years in Saudi Arabia, then settled in London at the beginning of the 1980s.

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• NovelThe Story of Zahraحكاية زهرةHanan al-Shaykh · 1980Literature