al-Shaykh

In prospect, Hanan al-Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights was by far the most arresting event of this year's international festival.

One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review 2011

In December 2001, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan militant who had run the al-Qaeda–affiliated Khaldan training camp, was captured in Pakistan.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

They were adapted by leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh, through 2010 from an original Syrian manuscript in Arabic from the 9th century now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, the French national library in Paris.

Arab Spring influence closes out Edinburgh Festival Reuters 2011

In December 2001, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan militant who had run the al-Qaeda–affiliated Khaldan training camp, was captured in Pakistan.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

In December 2001, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan militant who had run the al-Qaeda–affiliated Khaldan training camp, was captured in Pakistan.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

FOR THIS SELECT and highly subjective bibliography, I have deliberately neglected the bestsellers—the Thomas Friedmans and Robert Fisks—in favor of less well-known but equally important books by writers like Sami Zubaida, Zuhair al-Jezairy, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and Hanan al-Shaykh.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

They were adapted by leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh, through 2010 from an original Syrian manuscript in Arabic from the 9th century now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, the French national library in Paris.

Arab Spring influence closes out Edinburgh Festival Reuters 2011

In December 2001, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan militant who had run the al-Qaeda–affiliated Khaldan training camp, was captured in Pakistan.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

FOR THIS SELECT and highly subjective bibliography, I have deliberately neglected the bestsellers—the Thomas Friedmans and Robert Fisks—in favor of less well-known but equally important books by writers like Sami Zubaida, Zuhair al-Jezairy, Fawwaz Traboulsi, and Hanan al-Shaykh.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

In her 2009 memoir, The Locust and the Bird, al-Shaykh writes about the way her mother, who was never taught to read in her Lebanese village, rejected the man she was forced to marry when she was 14, took a lover, married him, and fought the religious courts in Lebanon for custody of her children.

Sex and the Shiite 2010