CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Edward Said (1935-2003)
Great intellectual and fighter for justice and humanity
Farewell, Wilfred of Arabia (1910-2003)
FEATURE ON NOVELIST HABIB SELMI
Samuel Shimon interviews the Tunisian author
Excerpt from Habib Selmi’s novel Ushaq Bayya [Bayya’s Lovers]
Khaled Mattawa: Poem Dark Anthem
Abdulilah Salhi: Two poems
Saïd el-Baz: Four Poems
Saad Sarhane: Ten Poems
Yassin Adnan: Seven poems
Nouri al-Jarrah: Five poems
Hartmut Fähndrich: Portrait of Tunisian novelist Hassan Nasr
FEATURE ON WRITERS AND POETS FROM IRAQ
Part 2
Buland al-Haydari: Nine poems
Salih J. Altoma: Buland al-Haydari (1926-1996)
Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi: Short story Mad Dog Disease
Sargon Boulus: Six poems
Mahdi Issa al-Saqr: Please, No More Flags! excerpt from new novel
Vivian Slioa: Two poems
Abdul Wahab al-Bayati: Poem Death and the Lamp
James Howarth: Al-Bayati’s Perfect City
Abdelkareem Kasid: Ten poems
Abdul Rahman al-Majedi: Four Poems
Ibtisam Abdallah: Short story The Nursery
Hadiyya Hussein: Short story No One Knew That
Mouayed al-Rawi: Poem The Processions of March
Sinan Antoon: Two poems
Six Iraqi authors from Baghdad give their views
Mahdi Issa al-Saqr, Saad Mohammed Raheem, Natiq Khaloosy,
Wared Bader al-Salem, Mohammed Darwish Ali & Taha Hamid Shabeeb
Samuel Shimon: Short story Two Royalists on Quatorze Juillet
Hussain al-Mozany Portrait of poet-publisher Khalid al-Maaly
REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY IRAQI AUTHORS
M Obank Tales of Old Baghdad by Khalid Kishtainy
Matthias Munsch Dreissig Orientalische Märchen by Najim A. Mustafa
M Obank Nine Parts of Desire a play by Heather Raffo
REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY OTHER AUTHORS
Susannah Tarbush
The Bullet Collection by Patricia Saffarian Ward,
Intersections – Gender, Nation and Women in Arab Women’s Novels ed. L M Majaj
The last Migration by Jad El-Hage
James Howarth
Children of the Water by Ibtihal Salem
Just Like a River by Mohammad Kamel al-Khatib
Leaves of Narcissus by Somaya Ramadan
Peter Clark
1. . . 2. . . 3. . . 4 Bomm by Abdul-Aziz al-Surayi and Saqr al-Rashoud
EVENTS
Dublin Writers’ Festival, June 2003
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, November 2003
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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