Banipal Books
Banipal Books was established in 2004 by Banipal's editor in order to strengthen and expand the work of Banipal Magazine by publishing in book form works by contemporary Arab authors. The first two titles were published in March 2005.
by Amjad Nasser
ISBN:978-0-9549666-8-3
186pp • £7.99• $15
Selected Poems
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poet's Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.
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by Sargon Boulus
ISBN:978-0-9549666-7-6
154pp • £7.99 • $15
Selected Poems
translated from the Arabic by the author
Knife Sharpener is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus in this collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died.
by Mahmoud Shukair
ISBN:978-0-9549666-3-8
Paperback • 124 pages • £7.99 • $15
Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives, the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival . . .
by Issa J Boullata
ISBN:978-0-9549666-6-9
Paperback • 120 pages • £7.99 • $15
From Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. George, Kamal, Mayy, Abdullah, Nadia, William, all have to begin their lives again, learn how to deal with their memories, with their pasts . . .
by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel and Abed Ismael
ISBN:0-9549666-2-7
Paperback. 128pp. £3.95
Poems and short stories by four young Arab authors celebrating their tour of the UK this August with Banipal Live, a partnership of Banipal magazine with the British Council and The Reading Agency.
Last few copies remaining
by Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
ISBN:0-9549666-1-9
Short Stories from North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia
Includes new works by authors well-known in the West – Tayeb Salih from Sudan, Mohamed Choukri from Morocco
by Jad El Hage
ISBN:978-0-9549666-4-5
Paperback • 288 pages • £9.99 • $15
Enthralling and timely saga, set in a small Lebanese village, of a young family's attempt to thwart the onset of civil war
by Samuel Shimon
ISBN:0-09549666-0-0
Paperback. 252pp
Autobiographical novel by London-based Iraqi author Samuel Shimon, translated from Arabic.
This
translation of An Iraqi in Paris is now out of print
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Shepherd of Solitude
by Amjad Nasser
Knife Sharpener
by Sargon Boulus
Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories
by Mahmoud Shukair
A Retired Gentleman, and other stories
by Issa J Boullata
Unbuttoning the Violin
by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel and Abed Ismael
Sardines and Oranges
by Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
The Myrtle Tree
by Jad El Hage
An Iraqi In Paris
by Samuel Shimon
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