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Huda Hamed (al-Jahouri)
Huda Hamed is an Omani writer and journalist, with a degree in Arabic literature from Aleppo University, Syria.
She has published three collections of short stories and four novels. The story collections are Namima Maliha (2006, Salty Gossip), Laysa bil-dhabt kama Ureed (2009, Not exactly as I want), and Al-Isharah Bourtuqaliya al-Ann (2013, The Traffic Lights are Amber Now).
Her four novels are Al-Ashia’ Laysat fi Amakiniha (2009, Things are Not in Their Place), which received the award of best novel in Oman for 2009. and was excerpted in Banipal 44, 2012. Her next novels are Allati Ta’udu al-Salalim (2014, Who Counts the Stairs) and Sanderillat Masqat (2016, Cinderellas of Muscat), and her latest one Assamina (2019, Our Names).
She is Managing Editor of Niswa quarterly cultural magazine, based in Muscat.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 44 - 12 Women Writers (2012)
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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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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