Banipal 12, Autumn 2001

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL – A Call from the House of Poetry in Morocco

Sargon Boulus: Poems

INTERVIEW
with Elias Khoury by Sonja Mejcher

Saadi Youssef: Poem
Inaya Jaber: Poems
Bensalim Himmish: Excerpt from the novel Power Crazy
Ghassan Zaktan: Poems

TRIBUTE

Mohammed Zefzaf (1945 – 2001)
Tribute by Mohammed Bennis
Two short stories Men and Mules and Ward 36

Mouayed al-Rawi: Poems
Mohja Kahf: Poems
Rashad Abu Shawar: Excerpt from a memoir of return
Kadhim Jihad: Poems

Mohammed Mustagab: Two short stories The Exit and Hulagu
with Profile by Mona Zaki

Issa J Boullata: A short story Vanity
Fadhil al-Azzawi: Poems from a UFO Window selections
Mohammed Bennis: From the epic poem Desert on the Brink of Light
Samuel Shimon: Text “You are a film, my son!” Photos Matthias Munsch

BOOK REVIEWS
Margaret Obank The Adam of Two Edens Selected poems of Mahmoud Darwish
Samir El-Youssef The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat
Lorraine Pounds Only in London by Hanan al-Shaykh
Margaret Obank Here There was Once a Country Poems by Vénus Khoury-Gata
Margaret Obank Poèsie 1 – “La Poèsie Arabe Contemporaine”
Edward Mower The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli
Samuel Shimon L’Oeuf d’Autriche by Raouf Moussad-Basta
Margaret Obank Classic Palestinian Cookery by Christiane Dabdoub Nasser
Geoffrey Nash Coloured Lights by Leila Aboulela

BOOKS IN BRIEF

EVENTS


Banipal No. 12



Rashad Abu Shawar


Mohammed Bennis


Sargon Boulus


Inaya Jaber


Saadi Youssef


Mohammed Zefzaf


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