Hanan Al-Shaykh
Hanan Al-Shaykh—an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright—is the author of the story collections
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops and
One Thousand and One Nights; the novels
Suicide of a Dead Man,
The Praying Mantis,
The Story of Zahra,
Women of Sand and Myrrh,
Beirut Blues,
Only in London, and
The Occasional Virgin; and a memoir about her mother,
The Locust and the Bird. She was raised in Beirut and educated in Cairo, and she lives in London.
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