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Samira Kawar, born in Jerusalem, is an experienced energy journalist who served as Middle East Editor at London-based energy publishing house Argus Media since 1999 until she resigned that post in March 2015 to concentrate on literary translation. She has contributed translations to Banipal since its foundation in 1998, and is a trustee of the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature.
Three of her literary translations from Arabic to English have been published. They comprise the novel The Eye of the Mirror by Palestinian writer Liana Badr, published by Garnet Publishing, 2008 in their Arab Women Writers Series, edited by Fadia Faqir, the autobiography of the late Saudi writer Abdul Rahman Munif Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman (Quartet Books, 1997), and the novelThe Baghdad Villa by Iraqi author Zuheir El-Hetti, published in April 2023 by Interlink Books, USA.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 52 - New Fiction (2015)
Banipal 65 - The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
Banipal 69 - 9 New Novels (Autumn/Winter 2020)
Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem (Spring 2021)
Banipal 74 - Celebrating Khalida Said and Modern Arabic Poetry (Summer 2022)
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal 64 - A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh (2019)
Banipal 75 - Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature
Banipal 60 - Alaa al-Deeb, A Writer Apart (Autumn/Winter 2017)
Banipal 61 - A Journey in Iraqi Fiction (2018)
Banipal 59 - The Longlist (Summer 2017)