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Rodaan al-Galidi
was born in Iraq around 1970; his exact date of birth is unknown. He studied as an electrical engineer and fled the country in 1992 to escape his draft orders. He arrived in The Netherlands in 1998 and instigated proceedings to become a legal citizen. After many years, his request was finally denied. In the meantime he had published a large number of books: novels, poetry and columns in newspapers. He won the El Hizjra Literature prize 2002 and the Phoenix Essay prize 2002, and was shortlisted for the J.C. Bloemprijs 2004 and the Debut prize 2004. His poetry collection De herfst van Zorro [Zorro’s Autumn], 2006, was shortlisted for the VSB Prize, poetry’s most prestigious annual award. His latest publications are the novel Dorstige rivier [Thirsty River], 2008 and De laatste slaaf. Biografie van een terugkeer [The Last Slave. Biography of a Return], 2009. He now lives in Belgium, where he is recognised both as a citizen and a writer and has been awarded a grant to work on new books.
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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