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Susannah Tarbush
was born in Bognor Regis, England, and educated at Oxford University, from where she has a BA in Psychology and Philosophy and an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. She has been a staff writer on Arab Report and Record, and on the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), business editor of Middle East magazine, and has written for a number of years for Al-Hayat newspaper based in London.
She is a freelance journalist specialising in Middle East cultural affairs, and runs the successful Tanjara blogspot (http://thetanjara.blogspot.co.uk/). She is a trustee of the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, a consulting editor of Banipal magazine and a regular book reviewer.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 54 - ECHOES (Autumn/Winter 2015)
Banipal 59 - The Longlist (Summer 2017)
Banipal 33 - Autumn/Winter 2008
Banipal 63 - The 100 Best Arabic Novels (2018)
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal 36 - Literature in Yemen Today (2009)
Banipal 68 - Short Stories (Summer 2020)
Banipal 43 - Celebrating Denys Johnson-Davies (2012)
Banipal 35 - Writing in Dutch (2009)
Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem (Spring 2021)
Banipal 65 - The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
Banipal 44 - 12 Women Writers (2012)
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 67 - Elias Khoury, The Novelist (Spring 2020)
Banipal 69 - 9 New Novels (Autumn/Winter 2020)
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal 72 - Iraqi Jewish Writers (Autumn-Winter 2021)
Banipal 75 - Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature
Banipal 59 - The Longlist (Summer 2017)
Banipal 60 - Alaa al-Deeb, A Writer Apart (Autumn/Winter 2017)
Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef (2014)
Banipal 52 - New Fiction (2015)
Banipal 61 - A Journey in Iraqi Fiction (2018)
Banipal 40 - Libyan Fiction (2011)
Banipal 62 - A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema (2018)
Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards (Spring 2017)
Banipal 39 - Modern Tunisian Literature (2010)
Banipal 45 - Writers from Palestine (2012)
Banipal 46 - 80 New Poems (2013)
Banipal 42 - New Writing from the Emirates (2011)
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
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
Digital images
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)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
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
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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