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Banipal 21 - Autumn 2004
“Barakat has established herself as one of the most intriguing voice among modern Arab novelists” Anton Shammas
“Shimon plunges into the pulsing essence of life to create an intimate and enthralling world that touches our hearts and souls” Fadhil al-Azzawi
CONTENTS
Cover artist: Azzawi
Editorial – 21 issues of dialogue and exchange
Hoda Barakat – Chapters from Disciples of Passion
Fadhil al-Azzawi – Chapters from The Dead City
Mohammed Achaari – Eight Poems
Emad Fouad – Two Poems
Akram al-Katreb – A poem My Father
Vénus Khoury-Ghata – A poem The Sailors Without a Ship
Faisal Darraj – Mamdouh Adwan and the freedom of the prolific creator
Sinan Antoon – Five Poems
Tarek Eltayeb – A Short Story The Sweetest Tea with the Most Beautiful Woman
Amina Saïd – Five Poems
Eskandar Habache – Poem I Suffer from Autumn
Shimon Ballas – Excerpts from the novel Outcast
Ammiel Alcalay on A Unique Chronicle of Iraqi History
Mahmood Abdel Wahab – Two Short Stories
A Different Kind of Woman and An Exceptional Passer-by
Mahdi Issa al-Saqr on Mahmood Abdel Wahab
Faraj Bayraqdar – Eight Poems
Maher Menzalji – A Short Story The Grand Plan
Jalil al-Qaisi – A Short Story Zulaikha
Fadhil al-Azzawi on Jalil al-Qaisi
Haifa Bitar – From the novel A Woman of this Modern Age
Ashur Twebi – Six Poems
Qassim Haddad – Five Poems
Gamal el-Ghitani – A Short Story The Crop
Samuel Shimon – The Assyrian Bear, a chapter from a novel
Mohammad al-Abbas – Women Novelists in Saudi Arabia
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen Watts She Says by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Maudie Bitar A Woman of this Modern Age by Haifa Bitar
Guy Bennett A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor, poems by Maram al-Massri
Stephen Watts Poems of Mourid Barghouti A Small Sun
Mona Zaki Novel of Youssef al-Mohaimeed Traps of Scent
LITERARY INFLUENCES
Abbas Beydhoun The Stranger, The Outsider and the Foreigner
EVENTS
Rabat: Mediterranean Poetry Festival
Selections from this issue
FICTION
Gamal el-Ghitani (1945-2015) – The Crop
Mahmood Abdel Wahab – A short story
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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