"Why are you still nibbling from other people's dishes?"
From The Locust and The Bird, My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh
Hanan Al-Shaykh (*1945)
Hanan Al-Shaykh, a leading contemporary Arab writer of novels, short stories and plays - I met her at the EdBookFest while she presented her newest project: 19 newly adapted of the 1,001 tales from the Arabian Nights in English. She took care to have the stories truthfully translated: piquant, sometimes even luscious, stories definitely revising the 'Disneyfied' children's stories Western readers have come to know. I found it most intriguing to meet another author from the East widening my narrow Western point of view. And with it someone who is not afraid of telling the truth, certainly not wanting to please anyone (not even her mother...). 
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