Receive Our Newsletter
For news of readings, events and new titles.
Back Issues
Banipal 13 - Spring 2002
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL – After New York and Washington, now Ramallah
Mohammad al-Maghut: Selected Poems
FEATURE on GAMAL EL-GHITANI
– Interview by Nabil Sharaf el-Din
– Excerpt from the novel To the Presidential Floor
with Translator’s Note by Mona Zaki
– A short story: Mystery Woman
– Faisal Darraj on The aesthetics of experimental narrative
Abbas Beydhoun: Six poems
Yasmine Khlat: Excerpt from award-winning novel Despair is a Sin
Abdul Kader El Janabi: Profile, Excerpt from memoirs Vertical Horizon, Six poems
FEATURE ON JORDANIAN LITERATURE
Salah Jarrar: Why Amman, the centre for Arab culture?
Fakhri Saleh: Jordan’s literary scene inside out
Mu’nis al-Razzaz (1951–2002) The Orbits of Echo – an excerpt from the novel Confessions of a Silencer
Fakhri Saleh Farewell to Mu’nis
Haydar Mahmoud: Three Poems
Zuleikha Abu-Risha: Three Poems
’Arrar: Profile by Noel Abdulahad and Poems
Ziad Al-Anany: Four poems
Taher Riadh: Two poems
Khaled Al-Karaki: The Jordanian Cultural Scene after 1989
Samiha Khreis: Excerpt from novel The Poppy
Insaf Qal’ajy: A short story Estrangement
Ibrahim Nasrallah: Poems
Saoud Qabailat: Excerpt from novel Side Alley
Mohammad Shaheen: The magazine Al-Ufuq Al-Jadeed
Hashem Gharaibeh: A short story The Lovers’ Ending
Mofleh al-Adwan: A short story The Speckled Ones
Basma el-Nsour: The Man Who Crossed the Street
Mohammad al-’Amry: Four poems
Jamal Abu Hamdan: A short story Falha and Dahham
Yayha al-Qaissi: A short story The Lonely Supper
Hikmat Nawayseh: Excerpt from A Forest of Smoke
Jeryes Samawi: A poem
Habib al-Zeyoudi: Three Poems
Ahmad el-Nsour: Poem – Quiet Days in Amman
Elias Farkouh: Excerpt from novel Columns of Dust
Zuhayr Abu Shayeb: Two poems
Jameelh Amirah: A short story Things Chaotic
Issa Batarseh: A poem
Hussain Jilaad: Four poems
Amjad Nasser: Four Poems
Ghalib Halasa: A short story Fear
BOOK REVIEWS
Samir El-Youssef The Author and his Doubles by Abdelfattah Kilito
Susannah Tarbush The Committee and Zaat by Sonallah Ibrahim
Yasir Suleiman On Identity by Amin Maalouf
Mona Zaki The Tiller of Waters by Hoda Barakat
EVENTS
Amsterdam Prince Claus Awards, December 2001
London World Poetry Day, 21 March 2002
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
* * *
* * *
* * *
Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
* * *
Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
* * *
* * *
GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
* * *
* * *
* * *
Banipal's first audiobook* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
Banipal Book Club
* * *
