Book Reviews

Banipal No 42
My Early Life by Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi
Homeless Rats by Ahmed Fagih and Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
One Day in April by Jad El Hage
In a Fertile Desert, selected, translated and introduced by Denys Johnson-Davies

Banipal No 41
Adonis: Selected Poems
Spectres by Radwa Ashour
Bye Bye Babylone : Beyrouth 1975-1979 by Lamia Ziade
I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish

Banipal No 40
Yalo by Elias Khoury
Like a Summer Never to be Repeated by Mohamed Berrada
The Loved Ones by Alia Mamdouh
White Masks by Elias Khoury

Banipal No 39
Treason by Hédi Kaddour
Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish
The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi
Moon over Samarqand by Mohamed Mansi Qandil

Banipal No 38
The Last of the Angels by Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Flawed Landscape by Sharif S. Elmusa
Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa

Banipal No 37
Just Like Tomorrow by Faiza Guene
Thirsty River by Rodaan Al Galidi

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 20
Yawm al-Din (Judgment Day)

Banipal No 19
Adama
Miracle Maker

Banipal No 17
A poet of light, earth and sea

Banipal No 10
I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghgouti

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