Sayyida al-Hurra: The Pirate Queen of Morocco

Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.

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Art Notes

The outfits, furniture, and even room are based as best I could on period reference.

Since she’s a pirate, she’s got a parrot sidekick – with an eyepatch and a hook for a foot.

She’s signing a contract on top of an Arabic-language map of the Mediterranean. One of the last fixes I did before the book went to print was to fix a typo in the Arabic word for Egyptian, which one of my friends caught. Hard to write in a language you don’t know!

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