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Ibrahim Nasrallah wins 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists

IPAF shortlist for 2018 prize

Translating Arabic Fiction Today

Longlist for 2018 IPAF announced

Robin Moger wins the 2017 prize for his translation of The Book of Safety by Yasser Abdel Hafez

First Shortlist announced for Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Sheikh Zayed Book Award Literature Longlist

3 October 2017: 2018 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow announced

Banipal events coming up in October

Banipal magazine at the Berlin Literature Festival – 8 September

Banipal 59 – The Longlist is published today, 13 July 2017

Robert Irwin to give 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture

Pen International launches global campaign for displaced writers

Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding open for applications

IPAF winner 2017 is Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan

Banipal 58 – Arab Literary Awards

Sheikh Zayed Book Award Results of the 11th Session 2016-2017

International Women's Day

IPAF Short list Announced

Banipal's Complete Digital Archive is launched

First Banipal Fellow is starting the Fellowship

Celebrate the 2016 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prizewinner

International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2017

Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa writes on th turmoil of being Syrian today

Banipal 57 – Syria in the Heart

Announcing the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship

16th Berlin Literature Festival starts today 7 September

To mark 10 years of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize

Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize 2016

The Ship No One Wanted

WELCOME LITERARY SALON

Sudanese authors & Banipal 55 at Waterstones Piccadilly on 14 June

Translated Fiction in the UK growing in popularity

Winner announced of International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016

Banipal 55 on Sudanese Literature Today

Amin Maalouf is Cultural Personality of the Year – SZBA announces

Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners 2015-16 cycle

SZBA Arab Culture in Other Languages shortlist

Hartmut Fähndrich awarded highest Swiss literary prize

Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2016 Shortlist for Literature & Children's Literature announced

The 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Shortlist of the 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

UK translator of Korean literature wins Arts Foundation Award

Longlist announced for International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016

Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh 14 January 2016

Paul Starkey wins 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story launched in Kuwait

2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

International calls for release of poet Ashraf Fayadh

Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2016 Longlist

Zakaria Tamer at Waterstone's – a momentous and memorable occasion

Shubbak Festival's Literature Weekend at the British Library

Free Digital Banipal Access

Banipal July Newsletter

Longlist for FT / OppenheimerFunds EmergingVoices Awards announced

Shukri Mabkhout is the 2015 IPAF Winner

2015 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize opens for translation from Polish

2015 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Winners

The launch of SAUD ALSANOUSI's first novel in English translation

THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2015

Emerging Voices Awards 2015

Celebrating the Winner of the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, Sinan Antoon

IPAF 2015 Shortlist

Banipal Book Club

2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2015 Longlist

IPAF 2015 Longlist

Successful Library Open Evening

Arab Science Fiction: from Imagination to Innovation

Eleanor Collins is the winner of the 2014 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize

Denys Johnson-Davies reviews . . .

Khaled Mattawa is awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Free Digital Access to Banipal

Alessandro Spina's Libyan Epic

Remembering Mahmoud Darwish

Saadi Youssef's Collected Poetical Works now on sale

2014 IPAF winner is Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation

Amjad Nasser's first novel published in English edition – Land of No Rain

Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners Announced

Remembering the 5 March 2007, bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad

Ounsi El Hage

The 2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is awarded today

International Prize for Arabic Fiction short list

Remembering Mark Linz one year on

2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prizewinners – Jonathan Wright and William M Hutchins

Launch of The Storyteller of Jerusalem

IPAF 2014 Long List

Ahmed Fouad Negm died today 3 December 2013

Launch of Banipal 48 – Narrating Marrakech in London's Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, part of the borough's Nour Festival of the Arts

Meet Ramsey Nasr on the 5th of November at the Dutch Centre

SHORT STORIES FROM THE ARAB WORLD

The Saison Poetry Library 60th birthday Celebration on 29th October

UK National Poetry Day

Hassam Abdulrazzak wins Arab British centre 2013 award for culture

Arabic reading groups in Cairo, London and New York

Maida Vale Library in London celebrates Arab Fiction Today

International Berlin Literature Festival

Banipal 47 - Fiction from Kuwait, out now in print and digital

Serpentine and Qatar Museums Authority collaborate on Arab Arts Festival in London: 4-6 July 2013

Contemporary Arab Fiction – Jana Elhassan and Mohammed Hassan Alwan

Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture

Ghassan Zaqtan wins International Griffin Poetry Prize

Review of Banipal 46 - 80 New Poems has been published in the Weekend edition of Malayalam-language newspaper

Saud Alsanousi wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Mahi Binebine launches his novel Horses of God in the UK

Marina Warner wins Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist for Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah

Farouk Abdel Wahab

Iraqi Author Ahmad Saadawi writes for New York Times

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here… Exhibition of the Project’s Inventory taking place in Manchester’s John Rylands Library

Khaled Khalifa's In Praise of Hatred longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013

STOP PRESS – Calling all Literary Translators of Arabic and Hebrew

Book Launch for The Bottom of the Jar with author Abdellatif Laâbi and translator André Naffis-Sahely

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Writers from Palestine Marwan Makhoul and Asma'a Azaizeh

Writers from Palestine in London on 24 January

Roger Allen wins Saif Ghobash Banipal Arabic Literary Translation Prize

Nihad Sirees in London, 29 and 30 January 2013

Ramsey Nasr in Grand Finale of High Impact Literature Festival

International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 Shortlist Revealed

2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is awarded to Ezzat El Kamhawi

An evening with Fadhil al-Azzawi

International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013

Banipal and the V&A's Friday Late: Record, Reframe, Resist

Sleep Song: Chapter 2

Arab Nights by Metta Theatre in London and UK tour

Ibrahim Nasrallah in London on first UK tour

Monastery of the Moon launched in London

Ibrahim Nasrallah's UK tour

Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan launches new poetry book in UK 31 October to 3 November

Remembering Sargon Boulus

Arabic Translation Mentoring Opportunity

A Week of Literary Prize Winners!

Shorouk Penguin launches world literary classics in Arabic

Sinan Antoon wins the 2012 National Translation Award

BANIPAL 45 completes 15 years of publication

Libyan authors at the Birmingham Book Festival – Ghazi Gheblawi, Giuma Bukleb and Mohamed Mesrati

National Poetry Day in the UK – 4 October 2012

30/09/2012: Happy International Translation Day!

26 September, European Day of Languages 2012

International Prize for Arabic Fiction announces new sponsor for 2013 Prize

John Dryden Translation Competition

Safar Film Festival 21-27 September: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema

The Written World

A Reading of Young Writers from Yemen and Morocco in Ann Arbor

Egyptian poet Helmy Salem has died from lung cancer, aged 61 years

Remembering a ground-breaking literary translation project

Alif Ensemble – musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq

Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize 2012 – from Chinese

Happy Ramadan from everyone at Banipal!

Mohamed el-Bisatie passes away 14 July 2012

Anna Lindh Foundation and Transeuropéennes release Report on Mapping of Translation in the Euro-Mediterranean region

The 2012 Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival

Banipal 44 – 12 Women Writers

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Banipal Celebration Reading at Poetry Parnassus

Banipal Book Club's meetings reported in Brownbook and The National.

Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies, aged 83

80-year-old Aharon Appelfeld's novel wins UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Three Percent's 2012 Best Translated Book Award Winners

Three day International Poetry Festival in Tripoli

New film about Etel Adnan

RABEE JABER wins 2012 IPAF

Three Iraqi Authors on UK Tour

BANIPAL DIGITAL EDITION

Ahmed Rashid Thani dies, aged 49

"A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century." Join Adina Hoffman as she speaks about the life and works of Taha Muhammad Ali

Presentation of the Saif Ghobash - Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

'A Tribute to Adonis: Talks and Events' at Mosaic Rooms

The 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

IPAF 2012 Shortlist Announced

First Meeting of the Banipal Book Club

Ibrahim Aslan suffers heart failure

Celebrating Emirati Literature (in English Translation)

On Tuesday 6 December, the judges of the Prix Goncourt de la poésie announced the 2011 winner, Lebanese poet, Vénus Khoury-Ghata.

Celebrate the Authors and Translators in Banipals 42, 41 and 40 at a Winter Reception

Arab Love Stories

The longlist for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012 is announced, 10 November 2011.

Khaled Mattawa's poem

Come to the Mosaic Rooms to celebrate the first title in the Swallow Editions series.

François Abu Salem – 1951 – 2011

Taha Muhammad Ali - 1931 - 2011

Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize

Jad El Hage : 'One Day in April'

Khairy Shalaby (1934-2011)

Heavenly Life shortlisted for Popescu Prize for Poetry

Today is the deadline for entries to the Young Translators' Prize

Samuel Shimon interviewed in The National newspaper

SHUBBAK

Samuel Shimon on Dubai Eye radio

Ramsey Nasr on BBC World Service's The Forum

19/06/2011: Arabic Literary Translation Workshop

18/06/2011:Ramsey Nasr at World Literature Weekend

The Ziggurat Builders – PREMIERE

Libyan authors at London Book Fair

Samuel Shimon in conversation with Maya Jaggi at the London Book Fair

Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize 2011 – from Arabic

2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Samuel Shimon at University of Texas at Austin

Banipal 40 – Libyan Fiction

Celebrating the 2010 winner and 5 years of the prize

5th winner of Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation announced

Happy New Year

The Shortlist Finalist Announced for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2011

Longlist Announced for International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011

Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper features Ramsey Nasr's Heavenly Life

Poetry International London 28 Oct to 7 Nov

Tunisian Literature Panel Discussion at Frankfurt Book Fair

Remembering Mahmoud Darwish

Emirati Poets – from London to Assilah

Emirati poets at London Literature Festival

Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair

Arabic Literature Events at London Book Fair

Kikah.com celebrates 8th birthday

Beirut39 authors in Beirut and the Launch of the Anthology of their works

Banipal 37 – IRAQI AUTHORS

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction Winner 2009-2010

One year ago – Tayeb Salih 1929-2009

Samah Selim wins the 2009 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Translation Workshop – Cairo, January 2010

The Dissolving Cube Exhibition includes film of Hassan Najmi reading poem The Cape

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Arab literature with a difference

Mahmoud Darwish: A River Dies of Thirst – Book Launch

The Children of Shatila presents Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather

Identity of the Soul

Berlin International Literature Festival

New versions of Banipal websites

Beirut39 celebrates Arab literature with Bloomsbury

14/07/2009: Insurmountable Obstacles Makes it Difficult for Visiting Artists to Enter UK

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Upcoming Events

Beirut 39

The Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Banipal wins 2008-2010 INCwriters Award

Check out Banipal on Facebook!

Banipal 34 – The World of Arab Fiction

Bassam Hajjar 1955–2009

Mahmoud Darwish 1941-2008

Sargon Boulus 1944-2007