Simon Pare translates literature, plays and for the cinema from German and French. He lives in Paris.
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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
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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)
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Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
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The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
Link to excerpt from Mahmoud Shukair's novel Shadows of the Family, published in Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
Link to excerpt from Mahmoud Darwish's poem Mural, translated by Sargon Boulus, published in Banipal 15/16 (2002-2003)
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