Abdul Hamid Ahmed
Abdul Hamid Ahmed is a pioneer short story writer in the Emirates. He has published three volumes of short stories and several collections of essays, and is now editor-in-chief of the English-language Gulf News newspaper. He was born in 1957 in Dubai.
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Banipal No 42 New Writing from the Emirates
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14/06/2013Ghassan Zaqtan and his translator Fady Joudah win the International Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems.
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Malayalam language review of Banipal 46 published in Madhymam newspaper
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Saud Alsanousi from Kuwait wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
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Moroccan painter novelist Mahi Binebine launches his novel Horses of God in the UK
[read more]19/04/2013
Marina Warner wins 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
[read more]10/04/2013
Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah shortlisted for International Griffin Poetry Prize
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