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Past Events
Wednesday 4 November 2020
6.30pm
4 Nov 2020 Book Club on Zoom
6.30pm
4 Nov 2020 Book Club on Zoom
To celebrate the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize lecture, to be given by Liana Badr, we will be discussing her novel The Eye of the Mirror at our next meeting on 4 November.
Published in Arabic in 1991, the novel was translated into English by Samira Kawar and published as part of Garnet Publishing’s Arab Women Writers series in 1996.
The Eye of the Mirror is set in the Tal el-Zaatar refugee camp in the mid-1970s and recounts the 1975–6 siege of Tal el-Zaatar in Beirut, as seen through the eyes of one Palestinian family and, in particular, the eldest daughter, Aisha.
New and second-hand copies of the book are available from the usual booksellers. The book is also available on Kindle.
The Lecture is a Special free online event, hosted by the British Library. Click here to register to attend and get the log-in details.
The Lecture will be given in both Arabic and English, and ticket-holders will be able to chooses which language they want to watch. More about the lecture here on the Banipal Trust website.
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The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
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
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)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
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