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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
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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