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Banipal 23 - Summer 2005
Lebanese poet and journalist Joumana Haddad writes about her interviews with international authors such as Paul Auster, Umberto Eco and José Saramago. Peter Ripken, of Literatur Nachrichten, is this issue’s magazine editor in the INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR. And Samuel Shimon kicks off a new series of illustrated TRAVELLING TALES with his own Steppenwolf Goes to San Francisco – by train from New York! LITERARY INFLUENCES features Iraqi poet Fadhil al-Azzawi.
CONTENTS
Cover artist: Dima Hajjar
Ala’ Hlehel A short story My Husband is a Bus Driver
Mahmoud Darwish A Poem
Not Like a Foreign Tourist Would
Duna Ghali A short story Sip
FEATURE ON Omani poet Saif al-Rahbi
with poems translated by Anton Shammas,
introduction by Fadhil al-Azzawi,
interview by Abdulla al-Harrasi and profiles by
Fakhri Saleh, Eskandar Habache and Khalid al-Maaly
Abdellatif Laâbi Excerpt from Le Fond de la Jarre
Abdelwahab Meddeb Five Poems
Joumana Haddad Article The Forty Thieves of Fire and Me
Hamid al-Iqabi A short story The Banjo Player
Mowaffk al-Sawad Three Poems
FEATURE ON Syrian poet Saniya Salih (1939-1995)
with poems translated by Issa J Boullata,
an introduction by Abed Ismael
and profile by Abdo Wazen
LITERARY INFLUENCES
Fadhil al-Azzawi I Lived a Magical Feast
Thani al-Suweidi Six Poems
Jad el-Hage A chapter from the novel The Myrtle Bush
Suleman Taufiq Fourteen Poems
Abu-Youssef Taha A short story Black Lilies
Abed Ismael Three Poems
Nadiah Alkokabany A short story Fireworks to Celebrate a Deflowering
Haggag Hassan Oddoul A short story Nights of Musk
INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR
Peter Ripken, of Literatur Nachrichten
A TRAVELLING TALE
Samuel Shimon Steppenwolf Goes to San Francisco
TRIBUTE
Hisham Sharabi (1927–2005)
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Clark Modern Arabic Literature in Translation by Salih Altoma and Lexicon Arabischer Autoren by al-Maaly & Nagger
Margaret Obank Anubis by Ibrahim al-Kony
Eleanor Kilroy Tomorrow is Another Day by Khalid Kishtainy
EVENTS
London: Caine Prize for African Writing
London: Edwar al-Kharrat and Selim Matar – South Bank Reading
Paris: Assia Djebar: Algerian joins Académie française
Rabat: Moroccan–German Dialogue in Poetry
Rotterdam: Emad Fouad at Poetry International Festival
Selections from this issue
FICTION
Abu-Youssef Taha – A Short Story
POETRY
Saniya Salih – Excerpts from You Will Go Out of the Body’s Walls
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) – A Poem
INTERVIEWS
Saif al-Rahbi – Poetry is my home and I cannot live outside it
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
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
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)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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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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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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