Strainchamps: This was after you had begun publishing fiction? Al-Shaykh: Yeah, they started to call me the new Shahrazad and I thought, no, I'm not that slave who tried to save herself by telling the king stories and she was captured in confined in his palace.
People called you the new Shahrazad? Al-Shaykh: In the West. Later, I started reading stories here and there and finally, because when I was translated into other languages, people always thought that I am the new Shahrazad and I used to be very offended. Hanan Al-Shaykh: Yeah, I heard them on the radio when I was eight or seven years old, and then I was mesmerized by what I heard. She says she first heard The Thousand and One Nights as a child, rediscovered them years later, and now she considers Shahrazad the world's first feminist.
The Lebanese novelist Hanan Al-Shaykh has just retold some of them. Anne Strainchamps: Shahrazad is such a romanic figure, the beautiful and wise young woman who saves her own life my telling stories, and kind of like Shahrazad herself, those stories live on.
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