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Banipal 2 - June 1998
CONTENTS
Editorial – Is there going to be a third issue?
Saadi Youssef: Six poems
FICTION
Ibrahim Aslan
Samira ’Azzam
Khalil Al-Neimi
Samir El-Youssef
Latifa Baqa
Yousif Qa’id
Luay Abdelilah
Paula Haydar
INTERVIEW with Adonis
There are many Easts in the East and many Wests in the West
POETRY
Saleem Barakat
Salam Sarhan
Taha Muhammad Ali
Mohammed Bennis
Saif al-Rahbi
Amina Saïd
Basheer al-Baker
Tahar Bekri
Saif al-Rahbi
Private Syntheses and Multiple Identities
INTERVIEW with poet, writer and artist Etel Adnan
BOOK REVIEWS
Susannah Tarbush: Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish
Anne Chambers: Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
Peter Clark: Leaving Beirut by Mai Ghoussoub
As'ad Khairallah: Ounsi El-Hage: Eternité volante Poetry Anthology
Stefan Weidner: On the Path . . . with Tayib Saleh by Talha Jibril
TRIBUTE
The moon declares mourning . . .
A tribute to Nizar Qabbani by Margaret Obank
Samuel Shimon: Film script
What’s Between the Poet and the Church?
Translations without Translators
Peter Clark on Arab writers who write in English
The Iraqi Migrant Novel
Fatma Mohsen on developments in Iraqi novel-writing
INTERVIEW . . . A Kiss of Death
Zelfa Hourani of Quartet Books talks about the perils of publishing
INTERVIEW A Window on the Walled Garden
Sue Coll of Garnet Publishing talks about their Arab Women Writers Series
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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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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