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Khalid al-Maaly
Khalid al-Maaly was born in the desert near al-Samawa, Iraq, in 1956. He is a poet, translator and publisher. He left Iraq in 1979, and settled in Cologne, Germany in 1980, where in 1983 he founded the publishing house Al-Kamel Verlag. A few years ago he moved to Beirut, and has extended the Al-Kamel Verlag to Beirut and Baghdad.
He has twelve poetry collections of his own works, some in German. He has translated works by a number of Arab poets such as Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Adonis, Mahmoud Darwish, Sargon Boulus, Saadi Youssef, Unsi al-Hajj.
Al-Kamel Verlag is noted for its independence, and daring, and has published many western authors in Arabic translation – poets, novelists and thinkers, and many outspoken and modernist Arab authors in Arabic.
He is one of the featured voices in Banipal 56 – Generation '56, whose works and cultural initiatives have greatly contributed to the exchange of ideas and culture between the Arab world and the rest.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
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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