With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level.

The daring fragm[...]

Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of "One Thousand and One Nights" tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Th[...]

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[...]

One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive, his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of ta[...]

I ett icke namngivet arabiskt ökenland möts det gamla och det nya i en ohelig allians. Den nya penningekonomin drar till sig människor från världens alla hörn.

Kvinnorna från myrrans land är en fängslande roman som utspelar sig i denna miljö. Fyra kvinnor med olika bakgrund ber�[...]

A richly woven and breathtaking memoir that focusses on the extraordinary life of the author's mother.[...]