Hanan al shaykh biography graphic organizer
Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the Arab world’s most acclaimed writers. She is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, Only in London, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and The Locust and the Bird, a memoir of her mother’s life, and One Thousand and One.