| Elias Khoury – a huge loss |
| A knight’s tour of a chessboard, crisscrossing through continents and time! |
| At Rest in the Cherry Orchard by Azher Jirjees |
| The Secrets of Folder 42 by Abdelmajid Sebbata |
| Winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 |
| Shortlists for 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
| 2023 Winner of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
| Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize 2023 Shortlist Announced |
| Free access all December to digital double issue Banipal 15/16 – Palestinian Literature |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award Longlists for 2024 Awards |
| More works from Banipal 45 by Palestinian authors |
| Shadow of the Sun |
| National Poetry Day 2023 |
| Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale |
| Banipal Magazine Digital Archive |
| The Judges and Entries of the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
| The Stone Serpent is released in US July 11th |
| The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners Announced |
| Talk by Mohammed Sawaie on his book The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists for 3 categories: Literature, Young Author, and Literary & Art Criticism |
| 2023 IPAF Shortlst Announced |
| Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature with Banipal |
| 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize announces joint winners HUMPHREY DAVIES and ROBIN MOGER |
| 2023 IPAF Longlist Announced |
| Invitation to Celebrate 25 Years of Banipal Magazine |
| Banipal's first audiobook The Mariner |
| The 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Shortlist |
| Remembering Abdel Aziz al-Maqalih |
| Banipal Magazine's Last Issue |
| Remembering Humphrey Davies |
| SZBA Longlists announced for 2023 Awards |
| Frankfurt Book Fair and Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
| Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Annual Lecture 2022 |
| BANIPAL 74, Summer 2022 |
| Debut novel by Shada Mustafa, Things I Left Behind – 25 May discussion |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces Winners |
| Available now: The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems |
| Banipal 72 – Iraqi Jewish Writers |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces Shortlists |
| Iraqi poet Hassab al-Sheikh Ja‘far |
| Society of Authors’ annual Translation Prizes |
| SARAH ENANY wins the 2021 Saiif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
| Humphrey Davies (1947–12 November 2021) |
| The 2021 Annual Lecture |
| Remembering Sargon Boulus (1944–2007) |
| Banipal news on International Translation Day |
| Four new literary translations from Banipal |
| The 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize – Judging Panel and Entries |
| Saadi Youssef 1934–2021 |
| Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 Winners announced |
| 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners and Shortlists |
| Shortlist 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
| 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Literature Shortlist |
| Revista Banipal de literatura árabe moderna |
| International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist |
| Mourid Barghouti (8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) |
| Society of Authors Translation Awards Ceremony |
| The winner of the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
| 2021 Fellowship is postponed |
| Wishing everyone good cheer and happy times |
| Arabic Language Day |
| Latest issue of Banipal is published – No 69 |
| Five works on the 2020 Shortlist |
| 24 Nov: Shortlist will be announced |
| Liana Badr's lecture: Creating a Mosaic of Literature |
| Celebrating Five Years of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship |
| Naima El Bezaz |
| Summer issue of Banipal is published |
| Elias Farkouh |
| Fiction in Translation from Banipal |
| Banipal publishes Tayeb Salih's memoir of his friend Mansi |
| Banipal 67 – Elias Khoury, The Novelist |
| 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
| Banipal wins the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Publishing |
| Banipal Book Club Online |
| 14 April the 2020 IPAF winner will be announced online |
| 2020 IPAF shortlist announced |
| Winner of Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Announced |
| Poetry for the Planet |
| The amazing digital archive of Banipal |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 Literature Longlist |
| Greetings for Christmas and 2020 |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 Longlists |
| IPAF 2020 Longlist Announced |
| Hammour Ziada awarded the 2020 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship |
| Shortlist announced for the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
| Banipal 66 – Travels |
| Amjad Nasser 1955–2019 |
| Adonis and Khaled Mattawa at London's Poetry International |
| At the British Library on 7 November 2019 |
| Banipal 65 – The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi |
| Omani author Jokha Alharthi and Marilyn Booth win 2019 Man Booker International Prize |
| Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh |
| Syrian poet Nouri Al-Jarrah reads A Boat to Lesbos in USA |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners for 2019 |
| Moris Farhi – the irreplaceable campaigner for writers' freedom |
| "Wandering the Cities While Dead" – a short story by Sargon Boulus |
| Sheikh Zayed Book Award Short Lists |
| No UK visa for Sudanese author Hammour Ziada |
| IPAF Short List announced |
| Announcing the winner of the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize |
| IPAF announces Longlist for 2019 prize |
| Announcing the Shortlist of the 2018 Prize |
| What's between Goethe and Adonis |
| Hammour Ziada is the 2019 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow at St Aidan's College, Durham University |
| Ismail Fahd Ismail |
| IV Odessa International Literature Festival |
| SAFAR Film Festival |
| Brooklyn Book Festival |
| Remembering Hanna Mina |
| Banipal 62 – A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema |
| Remembering Denys Johnson-Davies |
| Banipal 61 for Spring 2018 |
| Najwa Binshatwin, the 2018 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow |
| Ahmed Saadawi and Banipal |
| The Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces the winners for 2017-2018 |
| 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 |
| * MARK LINZ * |
| 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 |
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