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 is a consulting editor of Banipal and a regular book reviewer.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal No 31 Spring 2008
Banipal No 33 Autumn/Winter 2008
Banipal No 35 Writing in Dutch
Banipal No 36 Literature in Yemen Today
Latest News
18/02/2010Remembering Tayeb Salih, who died last year on 18 February.
[read more]11/01/2010
The winner of the 2009 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is Samah Selim for her translation of The Collar and the Bracelet by the late Yahya Taher Abdullah.
[read more]15/12/2009
The ARAB BOOKER PRIZE Short List titles and authors was announced at the Beirut Book Fair last December
[read more]29/11/2009
January 2010 – an innovative and intensive workshop for Arabic to English and English to Arabic literary translation – fiction and plays
[read more]26/11/2009
The Dissolving Cube Exhibition, 26 Nov to 5 Dec, includes film of Moroccan poet Hassan Najmi reading poem "The Cape"
[read more]16/11/2009
The 16 titles and authors on the Long List of the 2009-2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction were announced in Cairo today . . .
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