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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 Himmich: 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
Selections from this issue
POETRY
INTERVIEWS
Elias Khoury (1948 – 15 September 2024) – Interview with the author of Gate of the Sun
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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