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Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is a writer and translator. Her translations of Arabic literature include Suslov's Daughter by Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Darf Publishers, 2017) and The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House, 2016), as well as short pieces in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Jadaliyya, and Portal 9., among others.
She has also worked as a translator for the Palestine Festival of Literature.
From 2007–13 she was based in Cairo, where she ran a monthly bilingual literary salon. She has an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College, and was a CASA fellow at the American University in Cairo in 2012–13.
She is currently director of the American Literary Translators Association. Her translations of The Frightened by Dima Wannous, and Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun are forthcoming.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 64 - A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh (2019)
Banipal 50 - Prison Writing (2014)
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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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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Banipal Book Club
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