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Rachida el-Charni
Rachida el-Charni was born in Tunis in 1967. By 1981 she was studying law and also started publishing her short stories in Arab magazines and newsapers.
Her first collection was published in 1997, winning her the prize of the Centre of Arab Woman for Training and Research in Tunis. Her second collection (2000) was awarded first prize for Arab Women’s Creative Writing in Sharjah, but only after a ruling by censors that she change its title God Loves Me, Credo (the title story).
In 2002, a new edition was published in Beirut, with the title Saheel al-Asaila (The Neighing of Questions) and the inclusion of the censored story.
Her first novel Tarateel li-Alamiha (Hymns for her Pain) was published in 2011 by Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut. Rachida lives in Tunis where she works as an inspector of primary schools.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 44 - 12 Women Writers (2012)
Banipal 39 - Modern Tunisian Literature (2010)
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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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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