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Subhi Hadidi
Subhi Hadidi is a Syrian critic, political commentator, and translator. He graduated from Damascus University and continued higher studies in France and the UK. He writes extensively on contemporary Arab poetry.
His recent publications in Arabic include "Exiles's Crossings: Mahmoud Darwish and the Lyric-Epic Form", "The Novel and the Archive: How History Is Better Narrated?", "Before the Last Post in Postmodernism", "Frantz Fanon and the Postcolonial: Can the Subaltern Speak?". He published Reading Raymond Williams, After Reading Edward Said in English, and Palestine: L'enjeu culturel, and Entretien avec Edward Said in French.
He translated into Arabic several works of history, philosophy, literary theory, and fiction; including Montgomery Watt’s Islamic Political Thought, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Yasunary Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain, S. H. Hooke’s Middle Eastern Mythology, Michel Ziraffa’s Myth and the Novel and Edward Said’s Afterwards to Orientalism. He also translated selected poems by Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robert Bly, Toni Harrison, Rita Dove, Charles Simic, Louise Gluck, Michael S. Harper and Galway Kinnell.
Subhi Hadidi lives and works in Paris and is also a regular contributor to Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily, London.
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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