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Saleh Diab
was born in 1967 in Aleppo, Syria. He went to live in France in 2000. He has an MA in “Women Arab Poets after Nazik al-Malaika” from the University of Paris VIII and is currently working for a PhD on “The Prose Poem in Contemporary Arabic Poetry”.
He is a poet and literary critic, and has published his poems and articles in numerous newspapers and periodicals, including Nizwa, al-Hayat, al-Moulhak, and As-Safir. He has two collections of poetry, Kamaroun Yabison Yatani Bihayati (Dar Al-Jadid, Beirut, 1998), published in French translation as Une lune sèche veille sur ma ville (Editions Comp’Act, 2004), Saif Yonanai (Editions Mérite, Cairo, 2006), and has edited an anthology of contemporary Syrian poetry, Nawares Sawdaa (Maison de la Poésie, Algiers, 2007). He has also authored a book of critical essays on contemporary women’s poetry in Arabic, Récipient de la douleur (Clapas, 2007). The Arabic originals of the poems translated in Banipal 31 are part of a forthcoming collection.
Contributor's Issues
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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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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