Max Weiss
earned his PhD in History from Stanford in 2007 and is now Postdoctoral Fellow in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, and is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled, Institutions of Sectarianism.
His translation of Iman Humaydan Younes's B as in Beirut was published by Interlink late 2007 and his translation of Abbas Beydoun's Blood Test (excerpted in Banipal 29) was published by Syracuse University Press in 2008.
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Banipal No 34 The World of Arab Fiction
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16/05/2012Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies, aged 83
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80-year-old Aharon Appelfeld's novel wins UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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Three Percent's 2012 Best Translation – winners are Wieslaw Mysliwski’s Stone Upon Stone and Kiwao Nomura’s Spectacle & Pigsty
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TRIPOLI INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Organised by Ashur Etwebi and Khaled Mattawa
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14 April to 27 May
I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another
New film about Banipal editor Etel Adnan by the Otolith Group showing at the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton
28/03/2012
The Druze of Belgrade by Rabee Jaber wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012
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