Book Reviews

Banipal No 36
The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon
Two novels by Bahaa Taher
Cockroach by Rawi Hage

Banipal No 35
A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz
In Their Father's Country by Anne-Marie Drosso

Banipal No 34
Chicago by Alaa Al-Aswany
Cardamom and Lime: Recipes from the Arabian Gulf by Sarah al-Hamad
Wedding Night by Yusuf Abu Rayya

Banipal No 33
The Journals of Sarab Affan by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
The Earth in the Attic by Fady Joudah
La Nuit de l’étranger by Habib Selmi
The Collar and the Bracelet by Yahya Taher Abdullah
Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni
Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes

Banipal No 32
Sunset Oasis by Baha Taher
Tender Spot, Selected poems of Naomi Shihab Nye
Banquet of Lies by Amin Zaoui

Banipal No 31
Embers and Ashes – Memoirs of an Arab Intellectual
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber
Dissident Syria by Miriam Cooke
Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Outcast by Shimon Ballas
Inside the Night by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt’s Nobel Laureate by Rasheed El-Enany

Banipal No 30
The Lodging House by Khairy Shalaby
Learning English by Rachid al-Daif
Being Abbas El Abd by Ahmed Alaidy
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin
The Butcher's Confesssion by Hussain al-Mozany

Banipal No 29
I'jaam – An Iraqi Rhapsody by Sinan Antoon
Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel

Banipal No 28
Saraya, The Ogre's Daughter by Emile Habiby
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage (winner of the 2008 IMPAC prize)

Banipal No 27
Stephen Watts reviews poetry collections by Mahmoud Darwish and Nadia Tueni
Zuzana Kratka reviews two novels by Ibrahim Aslan

Banipal No 26
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Le Roman Arabe by Kadhim Jihad Hassan

Banipal No 25
Cabaret Su’ad by Mohammed Suwaid
Memories in Translation: A Life between the Lines of Arabic Literature by Denys Johnson-Davies
Yasser Arafat Looked at me and Smiled by Youssef Bazzi
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury

Banipal No 24
Damascus – Taste of a City by Marie Fadel as told to Rafik Schami
Jidar Bayn Dhulmatain / Asrar Abdullah / Al-Hudud Al-Barriya

Banipal No 23
Anubis A Desert Novel by Ibrahim al-Koni

Banipal No 22
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
Die Reise nach Tell al-Lahm by Najem Wali
Zayni Barakat

Banipal No 21
A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor
A Small Sun
A Woman of This Modern Age
Traps of Scent

Banipal No 19
Adama
Miracle Maker

Banipal No 17
A poet of light, earth and sea

Banipal No 8
The Sand Child, The Sacred Night and The Wrong Night

Banipal No 6
Arab authors published in French
The Tent

Banipal No 5
Dear Mr Kawabata

Banipal No 1
Hassouna Mosbahi's Short Stories
Ismailia Eclipse