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One Thousand and One Nights
The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh 'Magical ... bursting with jinnis and mischief' Donna Tartt 'One of the finest …
The Occasional Virgin
Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it’s only on their rarely …
A Nose and Three Eyes
Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first published in Arabic and continues to …
Women of Sand and Myrrh
In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, four women from different social and cultural backgrounds tell their story. There is Suha, an educated Lebanese woman brought to the desert by …
Beirut Blues
Asmahan skriver brev, desperat, vältaligt, fängslande för att ge mening åt sitt liv och kasta lite glans över det. Men hon skriver också för att belysa kriget som söndersliter …
One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling
Passed down over centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights are related by the beautiful, young Shahrazad as …
Only in London
Meeting during a flight from Dubai to London, four people from different corners of the Arab world--Lamis, recently divorced from her wealthy Iraqi husband; Nicholas, a Sotheby's …
One Thousand and One Nights
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. …
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
At the intersection of tradition and modernity, East and West, childhood and adulthood, Hanan al-Shaykh's characters find their way through the shifting and ambiguous power …
Locust and the Bird
In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her …
Only in London
As a flight from Dubai comes into London's Heathrow and hits turbulence, four people from different corners of the Arab world are thrown together: beautiful, lost Lamis, recently …
Gresshoppen og fuglen
Den dramatiske historien om den unge libanesiske barnebruden som føder sin mye eldre mann to døtre som hun må forlate for å følge sitt livs store kjærlighet.Kamila er ni år da …