Double issue
Cover Artists Vladimir Tamari, Samira Badran
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL Palestinian Literature: Solidarity with Admiration
Abd al-Aziz al-Maqalih: Selected poems from The Book of Sana’a
Saadi Youssef: Two poems
Hala Mohammad: Poems
Jamil Hatmal: Short story The Testimony of a Carpenter called Wahid
Samuel Shimon: Poems
Zuhair al-Jezairy: The Scream – an excerpt from a novel
FEATURE on CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN LITERATURE
Mahmoud Darwish
Sahar Khalifeh
Aida A Bamia
Huzamah Habayeb
Samer Abu Hawwash
Rasmi Abu Ali
Naomi Shihab Nye
Seema Atalla
Saud al-Asadi
Mahmoud Shukair
Faisal Darraj
Izzidin al-Manasrah
Adania Shibli
Jihad Hudaib
Zakaria Mohammed
Ziad Barakat
Ghassan Kanafani
M Obank on Ghassan Kanafani
Sharif S Elmusa
Iman Bassir
Majed Atef
Omar Shabbanah
Bassam Frangieh on Emile Habiby
Atef Abu Saif
Salman Natour
Musa Hawamdeh
Mahmoud al-Rimawi
Nasri Hajjaj
Ahmad Dahbour
Omar al-Qattan reviews Joe Sacco's Palestine
Samir el-Youssef
Mahmoud A Hashhash
Anas al-Ayla
James Kirkup — reviews Abu Jmeel's Daughter and other stories
Ziad Khaddash
Mohammad Ghanaiem
Salman Masalha
Hussein al-Barghouthi
Nathalie Handal
Khaled Abdallah
Raba’i Madhoun
Ala’a Hlehel Rashad
Abu Shawar
Susannah Tarbush on Laila al-Atrash
Walid Khazendar
Youssef Abdel-Aziz
Issa J Boullata
Liyana Badr
Ghazi el-Theeba
Khairi Mansour
Riyad Baydas
Mourid al-Barghouti
Yahya Yakhlif
Larissa Bender on Yahya Yakhlif
Ghassan Zaqtan
A M Qattan Foundation
BOOK REVIEWS
Mona Zaki They Die Strangers by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
James Kirkup A Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi
EVENTS
London: Poetry International – Saadi Youssef, Amjad Nasser
Mainz: World Congress ME Studies awards Edward Said
Casablanca: Third International Poetry Festival
Latest News
06/02/2012At a celebration of literary translation on Monday 6 February at Kings Place, Khaled Mattawa will receive the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
[read more]03/02/2012
The Mosaic Rooms celebrates theartistic and poetic works of the great Syrian poet Adonis with talks and events from 3-8 February and an exhibition of Adonis's collages from 3 February until 30 March. The opening evening this Friday sees Adonis in conversation with Khaled Mattawa who is the winner of the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation Adonis: Selected Poems.
[read more]16/01/2012
Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems
[read more]12/01/2012
Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
[read more]09/01/2012
Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.
[read more]08/01/2012
Ibrahim Aslan, one of Egypt's best-loved authors, has died of heart failure at the age of 77.
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