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Banipal 36 - Literature in Yemen Today (2009)
Beirut39 – Selecting the 39 top young Arab writers
Editorial – by Youssef Bazzi
Alawiyya Sobh – Excerpted from the novel It’s Called Love, translated by Maia Tabet
Yahya Taher Abdullah – Five short stories, translated by Elliott Colla
LITERATURE IN
with landscape and city photos by Paola Crociani
Bassam Shamseldin – A short story A Fight to the Finish, translated by Michael Scott
Laila Elhan – Three poems, translated by Rasheeda Plenty
Habib Abdulrab Sarori – Excerpts from the novel The Bird of Destruction, translated by William M Hutchins
Shawqi Shafiq – Seven poems, translated by Sinan Antoon
Ali Al-Muqri – Excerpt from the novel Taste Black . . . Smell Black, translated by Tony Calderbank
Fathi Abul Nasr – Seven poems, translated by Akram Rhomdan
Ahmad Zein – Excerpts from the novel American Coffee, translated by Michael Scott
Nadia Alkowkabani – Excerpt from the novel It’s Just Love, translated by Kat Stapley
Yasir Abdel Baqi – A short story The Black Cat, translated by Ali Azeriah
Abdel Aziz al-Maqalih – Summer Sonnets and other poems, translated by Issa J Boullata
Mohammad al-Shaibani – Three poems, translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi
Mohammad al-Qaood – Eight poems, translated by Allison Blecker
Sawsan al-Areeqi – Five poems, translated by Suneela Mubayi
Nabila al-Zubair – Ten poems, translated by Khaled al-Masri
Samir Abdulfattah – An excerpt from the novel The Tale of Mr M, translated by Ali Azeriah
Huda Ablan – Two poems, translated by Sinan Antoon
Wajdi al-Ahdal – A chapter from the novel A Land without Jasmine, translated by William M Hutchins
BOOK REVIEWS
Amir Taheri Cockroach by Rawi Hage
Susannah Tarbush Sunset Oasis and As
Alfred Corn The
BOOKS IN BRIEF
Fiction, Poetry and Travel
TRIBUTE
Anwar al-Ghassani – 1937–2009 by Fadhil al-Azzawi
EVENTS
The translators in Banipal 36 are: Sinan Antoon, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Ali Azeriah, Allison Blecker, Issa J Boullata, Anthony Calderbank, Elliott Colla, Ghenwa Hayek, William M Hutchins, Khaled al-Masri, Khaled Mattawa, Suneela Mubayi, Rasheeda Plenty, Micheal Scott, Jenny Steel, Maia Tabet.
Banipal 36 – Literature in Yemen Today
was produced in collaboration with
the Yemen Bookshop
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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