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Princess Shireen is a character in Amin Maalouf's book Samarkand. She is a 19th-century Persian princess, who discovered the lost text and fell in love with an American scholar. Travelling back to America, they lose the manuscript in the sinking of the Titanic.
Posted at Apr 12/2009 09:32AM:
ian: What is her significance? Think issues of gender, Iranian nationalism, role of memory and cultural heritage - in essence is she more than just the love story catalyst?