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Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem (Spring 2021)
(Spring 2021)
Cover painting of Mahmoud Shukair created for the issue by Kawoosh
This issue is available as a paperback (ISBN 978-1-913043-20-9)
or as part of a digital or a print subscription.
Ammar Almamoun reviews al-Nawm fi Haql al-Karaz (At Rest in the Cherry Orchard), a novel by Azher Jirjees
Azher Jirjees: Three excerpts from the novel al-Nawm fi Haql al-Karaz (At Rest in the Cherry Orchard), translated by Jonathan Wright
Hassan Abdel Mawgoud: A Bicycle Brings an Old Comrade, a short story, translated by Raphael Cohen, from the author’s collection Huroub Fatina (Ravishing Wars), published by Al-Kotob Khan, Cairo 2018
Katia al-Tawil reviews Lam yusalli ‘alaihum ahad (No One Prayed Over Their Graves) by Khaled Khalifa
Khaled Khalifa: Excerpt from his novel Lam yusalli ‘alaihum ahad (No One Prayed Over Their Graves), translated by Leri Price
INTERVIEW with Lebanese writer Alawiya Sobh
by Katia al-Tawil
Alawiya Sobh: Three chapters from her latest novel An Ta’ashaq al-Hayat
(To Love Life), translated by Nancy Roberts
SPECIAL FEATURE
MAHMOUD SHUKAIR, WRITING JERUSALEM
Mahmoud Shukair: Three short stories, translated by Samira Kawar
Fakhri Saleh: On the Literary achievement of Mahmoud Shukair
Aida Fahmawi Watad: Palestinian Writing, Inside a Closed-Open Cage
Fayez Ghazi reviews the novel
Dhilal al-‘A’ilah (Shadows of the Family) by Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair: Excerpt from Shadows of the Family, translated by Karen McNeil and Miled Faiza
Hannah Somerville reviews Mordechai’s Moustache and his Wife’s Cats and other stories by Mahmoud Shukair, translated by Issa J Boullata, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Elizabeth Winslow and Christina Phillips
Susannah Tarbush reviews Jerusalem Stands Alone by Mahmoud Shukair, translated by Nicole Fares
Mahmoud Shukair: 26 Micro Stories, translated by Mayada Ibrahim
Ibrahim Nasrallah reviews Faras al-'A’ilah (The Family Mare) by Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair: The Phantom, a short story, translated by Paul Starkey
GUEST WRITER
Trino Cruz The Fertile Shore, selected poems
INTERVIEW
Interview with the editors of Maktoob, the project for translation of Arabic literature into Hebrew
BOOK REVIEWS
Joselyn Michelle Almeida reviews Fugitive Atlas: Poems by Khaled Mattawa
Stephanie Petit reviews De Weekendmiljonair (The Weekend Millionaire) by Abdelkader Benali
Becki Maddock reviews Agadir by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated by Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak
LITERARY AWARD
American translator Kay Heikkinen wins the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
for her translation of Velvet by Huzama Habayeb
Selections from this issue
FICTION
INTERVIEWS
OTHER SELECTIONS
Fakhri Saleh – On the Literary Achievement of Mahmoud Shukair
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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