Right and Left
She is the author of "Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk About Their Lives" (1988), a book composed mostly of interviews with Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Algerian women. In this study, Shaaban invited Arab women to talk openly about their lives and the roles of women in their societies, how they feel they've changed through different times of war and crisis, and what they think the future holds for Arab women. Another of her books published in English is her study of Arab female writers "Voices revealed: Arab women novelists, 1898-2000".