Recommended Reading/Browsing:

• Biographies, Profiles, Interviews: Wikipedia | Al-Akhbar | Literary London | Al-Ahram | The Guardian [London]
• Ghada Khouri, "Caught in the Middle: Women in Lebanon." Mediterranean Women (1999)
• Jacki Lyden, "Lebanese Writers Offer Alternative Views of Beirut" (NPR's Weekend Edition, 5 March 2005): a report on the anthology of new writing from Lebanon, Transit Beirut
• NPR's Rachel Martin interviews Al-Shaykh about her retelling of One Thousand and One Nights (NPR's Weekend Edition, 9 June 2013)
• Lebanon: Britannica | CIA World Factbook | Wikipedia
• Saudi Arabia: Britannica | CIA World Factbook | Wikipedia