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Banipal 1 - February 1998
CONTENTS
Editorial
Why an Arab literature magazine?
Adonis: Poem – Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
INTERVIEW
Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus talks to Banipal’s editor
OPINION
Mohammad Ali Farhat and Muhi Al-Din Lazikani talk about
the Arab literary scene today
Henry Miller on Albert Cossery
POETRY
Nathalie Handal
Mai Mudhaffar
Amjad Nasser
Hashim Shafiq
Khaled Mattawa
A K El Janabi
Kamal Abu Deeb
Salah Niazi
Ghazi Algosaibi
Khaled Al-Najar
Muhi Al-Din Lazikani
Amjad Nasser
FICTION
Samira Al-Mana
Zakariyya Tamir
Ibrahim Ahmed
Ghalia Kabbani
Wigdan al-Sukhni
Hassouna Mosbahi
Tarek Eltayeb
Abdullah Sakhi
Samira Al-Mana
Samuel Shimon
BOOK REVIEWS
Nathalie Handal: Ismailia Eclipse poetry collection by Khaled Mattawa
Matthias Munsch : The Green Donkey and other short stories by Hassouna Mosbahi
Faisal Darraj: Dregs of the Day by Youssef Qua’id
INTERVIEW A Cultural Mirror
Saqi Books publisher Mai Ghoussoub talks to Banipal
TRIBUTE
Remembering Sa'dallah Wannus
Peter Clark pays tribute to the late Syrian playwright
A Time for Pluralism
INTERVIEW with Iraqi artist Faisal Laibi Sahi
The compassionate condition
Fadhel Sultani on William Trevor
INTERVIEW The Patient Camel
Mona Naggar on Al-Jamel publishing house
Selections from this issue
FICTION
POETRY
Khaled Najar (al-Najar) – Ten Poems
INTERVIEWS
Sargon Boulus – It just grabbed me, this magic of words, of music
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)
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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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