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A Woman's Voice for the Arab World |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Charles R. Larson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,802 Words, 10,473 Characters |
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THE STORY OF ZAHRA
Hanan al-Shaykh
London: Quartet Books, 1986
192 pp.
WOMEN OF SAND AND MYRRH
Hanan al-Shaykh
London: Quartet Books, 1989
280 pp.
The two remarkable short stories that are published here are significant not only as Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh's first publications in the United States but also because they introduce a voice from the Arab world that few people have heard before. We are hardly even accustomed to reading fiction by Islamic male writers, let alone by a woman as unique as Hanan al-Shaykh.
When the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz won the Noble Prize in literature in 1988, he was the first writer from the Arab world accorded such attention. Though several of his works were available in American editions at...
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... is really more under the domain of social habits--which don't relate to the true teaching of Islamic societies.
There is little doubt that Hanan al-Shaykh is the major woman writer of her generation, in part because of the counterpoint that she provides to the traditional masculine world of Arabic literature. Her voice commands attention both within and without the new Islamic world. vbcrlf
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