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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)
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
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
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)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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