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Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories
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 . . .

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A Retired Gentleman, and other stories
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 . . .
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The Myrtle Tree
By Jad El Hage
ISBN: 978-0-9549666-4-5

Paperback • 288 pages • £9.99

Enthralling and timely saga, set in a small Lebanese village, of a young family's attempt to thwart the onset of civil war


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Unbuttoning the Violin
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
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Sardine and Oranges
By Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
ISBN: 0-9549666-1-9

Paperback. 222pp.

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


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An Iraqi In Paris
By Samuel Shimon
ISBN: 0-09549666-0-0

Paperback. 252pp

Autobiographical novel by London-based Iraqi author Samuel Shimon, translated from Arabic.

Long-listed for the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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All Titles
Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories
By Mahmoud Shukair
A Retired Gentleman, and other stories
By Issa J Boullata
The Myrtle Tree
By Jad El Hage
Unbuttoning the Violin
By Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel and Abed Ismael
Sardine and Oranges
By Tayeb Salih and 20 other North African authors
An Iraqi In Paris
By Samuel Shimon


News

ALBERT COSSERY DIES
Albert Cossery in Paris in 2000, holding up Banipal 8












For tribute click here


SYRIAN POETS TO VISIT UK
Hala Mohammed, Monzer Masri, Rasha Omran, Lukman Derky










From 4 to 9 July Four Syrian poets will be visiting the UK for performances at Ledbury Poetry Festival and the London Review Bookshop


BANIPAL WINS
2008 INCWRITERS AWARD
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10 MARCH

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction awarded its inaugural prize to Baha Taher for his novel [Sunset Oasis]. For full details click here


BOOK FAIRS IN 2008
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2007 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Arabic Literary Translation Award
for all information on the 2007 award, click here


SARGON BOULUS (1944–2007)
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BANIPAL ISSUES INDEX
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EVENTS OF 2007

Frankfurt Book Fair
Manchester Literature Festival
Institut Français, London

Ledbury Poetry Festival
Poets' House, New York
RAWI conference, Dearborn
Amman Translation Conference
Abu Dhabi Book Fair
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BANIPAL PAPERBACKS

Two collections of short stories
Mordechai's Moustache & his Wife's Cats
and A Retired Gentleman


• PHOTO-REPORT Banipal Live 2006

Authors of Banipal Live tour



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