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Past Events
Tue 21 June 2016
6.30pm
Arab British Centre, Meetings Room & Library, 1 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE
6.30pm
Arab British Centre, Meetings Room & Library, 1 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE
The Arab British Centre and Banipal invite you to our special
WELCOME LITERARY SALON
A Refugee Week event
Do join us for a diverse evening of literature, discussion, poetry, film, readings, theatre and performance
with
Ahmad Massoud, Juan delGado, Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso, Stephen Watts and Hassan Abdulrazzak
The evening ends with a special screening of the film
Journey into Memory by Syrian poet Hala Mohammad
PLUS
• Special display of books in the Library
PLUS
• We are collecting much-needed books to donate to Refugee Libraries
Do bring along any books (in good condition) in any language and they will be passed on.
We are working with www.reactweb.org
This is a free event but reservations are a must as places are limited.
Email info@arabbritishcentre.org.uk to reserve your place
We look forward to seeing you there!
Welcome Literary Salon is part of Refugee Week – 20-26 June 2016
The theme of this year's week of events is
Refugees Welcome. Different Pasts, Shared Futures.
For more info about Refugee Week go to: refugeeweek.org.uk
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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