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Banipal 3 - October 1998
CONTENTS
Editorial: Thank You for your Support
Abbas Beydhoun: Selected poems
INTERVIEW with Abdelrahman Munif
compiled by Samuel Shimon
with comment, review and analysis from Peter Theroux, Peter Clark and Faisal Darraj
Anton Shammas: Three poems
FICTION
Najem Wali
Laila al-Othman
Kareem Abed
Younis al-Akhzami
Samuel Shimon
Mohammed al-Belushi
Hadia Sa’id
Mohammed el-Mezdioui
Ahmed al-Fagih
Mohamed Berrada
INTERVIEW with Costa Gavras
by Samuel Shimon
POETRY
Qassim Haddad
Dunya Mikhail
Ahmad Fu’ad Nigm
Mohammad Ali Farhat
Nouri al-Jarrah
Amel Moussa
Adel Khozam
Sharif al-Rubai
Khalid al-Maaly
Anwar al-Ghassani
Khaled Mattawa
The Arrival of a Stranger
Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser talks to Banipal
with selected poems translated by Sargon Boulus
BOOK REVIEWS
Stefan Weidner: Writing the Self
Susannah Tarbush: In the House of Silence Arab Women’s Novels Series
Samir el-Youssef: Studies in Canonical and Popular Arabic Literature
Salah Niazi: Live Theatre & Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arab World
EVENT
Sheffield: Third International Colloquium of Literary Translation
PLAY AND PERFORMANCE
Ghazi Algosaibi
Excerpt from the play She and He
Mai Ghoussoub presents Monologues and Sculptures
Jamila is my name and Homage to Josephine (Baker)
Selections from this issue
FICTION
POETRY
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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