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Clare Roberts
Clare Roberts has a BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Oxford University) and an MA in Arabic Poetry and Turkish Politics from SOAS, London. She has worked with Banipal as an intern, and currently works at a charity in London, and writes reviews for Banipal.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 63 - The 100 Best Arabic Novels (2018)
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 64 - A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh (2019)
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal 52 - New Fiction (2015)
Banipal 60 - Alaa al-Deeb, A Writer Apart (Autumn/Winter 2017)
Banipal 61 - A Journey in Iraqi Fiction (2018)
Banipal 62 - A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema (2018)
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 The Mariner
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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)
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Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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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
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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