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The Story of Zahra

Hanan al-Shaykh

1980

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A young woman searches for herself amid the madness of the Lebanese civil war.

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A leading Arab woman novelist who writes daringly about the female body, mind and sexuality against the backdrop of war — for which her books were repeatedly banned.

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