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Banipal 22 - Spring 2005
There are short stories by Tayeb Salih, Ali Mosbah, Issa Boullata,
Mohamed Choukri, Rabia Raihane, Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Hussain al-Mozany. LITERARY INFLUENCES is by Rafik Schami, Interview with Birgitta Wallin,
editor of Swedish magazine Karavan. Reviews of Zayni Barakat
(re-issue), Die Reise nach Tell al-Lahm and An Iraqi in Paris.
CONTENTS
Cover artist: Sadradeen
Ali Mosbah A short story Wind
Abbas Beydhoun Six Poems
Najwa Barakat Excerpt from A Busload of Good People
Hassan al-Shami reviews A Busload of Good People
Tayeb Salih A short story If She Comes
Ibrahim Nasrallah Eight Poems
Salah Hasan A Poem An Old Song about the Plains
Mansoura Ezeldin A short story Butrus: A Distant Hazy Face
Ali al-Domaini Excerpt from the novel The Grey Cloud
Nazih Abu Afash Three Poems
Hussain al-Mozany A short story The Last Wish
Inaya Jaber Thirteen Poems
Issa J Boullata A short story A Retired Gentleman
Rabia Raihane A short story A Red Spot
Fady Joudah A Poem Along Came a Spider
Lisa Suhair Majaj Two Poems
Baha Edinne Taoud Excerpt from the novel Beyond the Self
Rasha Omran A Poem When Longing Tormented Me
Mohamed Choukri A short story Men Have All the Luck
Aziz Chouaki An Excerpt from The Star of Algiers
INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR
Birgitta Wallin of Karavan magazine
TRIBUTE
Samir Naqqash (1938–2004)
LITERARY INFLUENCES
Rafik Schami What I learnt from Sheherazade
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Clark Re-issue of Gamal el-Ghitani’s Zayni Barakat
Sophie Richter-Devroe Die Reise nach Tell al-Lahm by Najm Wali
[The Journey to Tell al-Lahm]
Fadhil al-Azzawi An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
EVENTS
Prince Claus Fund Award to Mahmoud Darwish
Dance-Drama: “Texterminators” by Mai Ghoussoub
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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