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Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Introduction Hanna al-Shaykh, an Arabic author in her novel, the story of Zahra, features a troubling life of a young Arabic lady held captive inside herself via the societal demands and family treachery but at the end freed amidst the fighting taking place in her country of Lebanon. This novel mirrors the writer’s feminist empathy and her obsession with the modern Arab society. The novel tells a story of the life in Arabic society of Lebanon through the eyes of a youthful lady, Zahra, who as a kid is exploited to conceal her mother's extramarital affair with a different man. Following a cruel beating by her vicious dad, who believes that Zahra is involved in her mother’s treachery, the previously brilliant child recoils into herself. She fanatically scuffs her pimple-filled face and gets on a worthless love with an already married gentleman. Zahra procures abortion twice. The family later sends her to Africa, a place in which her uncle who was one time vibrant in Lebanese political affairs now stays exiled. The nostalgic uncle is very much pleased with Zahra's visit, but she is scared by the passion of the uncle’s interests that took a sexual turn. She hides inside the lavatory, the single thing she adored while in Africa (Al-Shaykh 21). In despair Zahra consents to a fruitless matrimony with the uncle’s colleague Majed, who is also a Lebanese national. Since Zahra’s marriage with Majed has failed, she becomes more solitary and introverted, and journey back to Beirut that is overwhelmed by conflict, a place in which conflict war is raging like a weevil in flour (Al-Shaykh 119). When the conflict
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