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Banipal 71 - Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Summer 2021)
This issue is available as a paperback (ISBN 978-1-913043-25-4)
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Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
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Tribute to Saadi Youssef (1934-2021)
Margaret Obank: Farewell, Saadi Youssef, “the last communist”
Samuel Shimon: Banipal salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Fadhil al-Azzawi: Saadi Youssef, the Poet of Small Details
Mosab Abu Toha: “Leaving Childhood Behind” and other poems
The Edward Said Library in Gaza
Hatif Janabi: Five Poems, translated by Kahtan Mandwee
Ammar Almamoun reviews Sanderellat Masqat (Cinderellas of Muscat) by Huda Hamed
Huda Hamed: Cinderellas of Muscat, an excerpt from the novel, translated by Chip Rossetti
Katia al-Tawil reviews Ma Taraktu Khalfi (Things I left Behind) by Shada Mustafa Read the review here
Shada Mustafa: Things I left Behind, excerpts from the novel translated by Nancy Roberts
SPECIAL FEATURE
Banipal Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Hassouna Mosbahi: Ihsan Abdel Kouddous – Writing with a Spirit of Freedom and Defiance (See below for link to article online)
Mahmoud al-Ghitani: Ihsan Abdel Kouddous – Writing Across Class Divides
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous: A Nose and Three Eyes, a chapter from the novel, translated by Jonathan Smolin
Jonathan Smolin: Introduction to Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s novel I Do Not Sleep
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous: Excerpt from the novel I Do Not Sleep, translated by Jonathan Smolin
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous: “Girl Three”, a story from Girls in Summer, translated and introduced by Raphael Cohen
A TRAVELLING TALE
Mohammed al-Sharekh: The Calligrapher of Kufa, translated by Paul Starkey
(See link below to the travelling tale online)
BOOK REVIEWS
Trino Cruz reviews Exhausted on the Cross: Poems by Najwan Darwish, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Abdo Wazen reviews Harir al-Ghazala by Jokha Alharthi
Fayez Ghazi reviews Booq (Trumpet) by Mohammed al-Asfar. Read the review here
Hannah Somerville reviews God 99 by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright
Ammar Almamoun reviews Al-Ishtiyaq ila al-Jarah (Longing for the Woman Next Door) by Habib Selmi Read the review here
AND . . . BOOKS RECEIVED
Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan, translated from the Arabic by Alexander E. Elinson
Roundabout of Death by Faysal Khartash, translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss
The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany, translated from the Arabic by S R Fellowes
Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek, translated by Leri Price
All The Women Inside Me by Jana Elhassan, translated by Michelle Hartman
The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf, translated from the French by Frank Wynne
Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage
We Wrote in Symbols, Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers, edited by Selma Dabbagh
Midnight In Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ‘20s by Raphael Cormack
The Arabic Prose Poem, Poetic Theory and Practice by Huda J. Fakhreddine
LITERARY AWARDS & EVENTS
• Sheikh Zayed Book Awards for 2021 – the winners
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction for 2021
The winning novel – Dafatir al-Warraq (Notebooks of the Bookseller) by Jalal Barjas
• Banipal at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair, 2021
CONTRIBUTORS
For all contributors to this issue and others, go to https://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/
The translators of this issue are:
Maissa Arfaoui, Raphael Cohen, Kahtan Mandwee, Nancy Roberts, Chip Rossetti, Jonathan Smolin, Paul Starkey, Jonathan Wright
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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)
Digital Banipal the full archive
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)
LATEST NEWS
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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Banipal Book Club
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