Yusef Habshi al-Ashqar
(1922-1992) was born in Bayt Shabab, Lebanon. Author of several novels and collections of short stories, he is considered by many as one of the greatest of modern Arab writers.
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Banipal No 4 Spring 1999
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18/02/2010Remembering Tayeb Salih, who died last year on 18 February.
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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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