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Khulood Al-Mu'alla
Khulood Al Mu'alla won
the Buland Al-Haidari Award for Young Arab Poets at the 30th Assilah
International Cultural Festival in Morocco in 2008, an event celebrating
visionary poets and intellectuals from all over the Arab World. She was the
first poet from the Gulf to win this award.
Active on the Gulf poetry scene,
she was born in Umm Al-Quwain, UAE, moving to Ras Al-Khaimah as a child. Since
1997 she has published four collections of poetry.
In
July 2010 Khulood participated with Banipal magazine and two other Emirati authors, Nujoom al-Ghanem and Khalid Albudoor, in the UK’s Ledbury Poetry Festival and the
London Literature Festival.
In September 2011 she participated with fellow Emirati author Sarah al-Jarwan in the International Berlin Literature Festival in events supported by the Emirates Foundation as part of Banipal 42's main theme on writings of contemporary authors from the Emirates.
In December 2011 she read her poems at the NYU-AD and Banipal poetry event, launching Banipal 42 in Abu Dhabi, and in 2012 she read her poems, translated in Banipal issues, at the Emirates Airline International Literature Festival in Dubai.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 42 - New Writing from the Emirates (2011)
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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