Rabee Jaber
is a Lebanese novelist and journalist born in 1972 in Beirut and studied physics at the American University of Beirut. He is presently editor of Afaaq [Horizons], the weekly cultural supplement of Al-Hayat daily newspaper. Since 1995 he has written nine novels, all much admired by both readers and critics, his latest being Youssef al-Inglizi [Youssef the Englishman], published in 2002, excerpted in Banipal. His first novel, Master of Darkness, won the Critics Choice Prize in 1992 and in 2010 his novel America was short-listed for IPAF.
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Banipal No 17 Summer 2003
Banipal No 41 Celebrating Adonis
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06/02/2012At a celebration of literary translation on Monday 6 February at Kings Place, Khaled Mattawa will receive the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
[read more]03/02/2012
The Mosaic Rooms celebrates theartistic and poetic works of the great Syrian poet Adonis with talks and events from 3-8 February and an exhibition of Adonis's collages from 3 February until 30 March. The opening evening this Friday sees Adonis in conversation with Khaled Mattawa who is the winner of the 2011 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation Adonis: Selected Poems.
[read more]16/01/2012
Khaled Mattawa wins the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Translation Prize for Adonis:Selected Poems
[read more]12/01/2012
Chair of IPAF Judges Georges Tarabichi announces the shortlist authors of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
[read more]09/01/2012
Banipal Book Club's first book for discussion is The Tobacco Keeper by Ali Bader.
[read more]08/01/2012
Ibrahim Aslan, one of Egypt's best-loved authors, has died of heart failure at the age of 77.
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