Selections of poems and fiction, sampling the richness and variety of the hundreds of authors in the issues. Plus a chance to hear and see a few of the authors in performance.
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Selected Issue: Banipal 65, The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
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Special feature on Iraqi Poet and Writer Fadhil al-Azzawi
Was Fadhil al-Azzawi better as a poet or as a novelist? His career spanned both realms, each a testament to the vitality of his modernism, his prolific literary output, and his commitment to the role of the free and independent intellectual.
There are those who prefer him as a novelist rather than as a poet. There are also those who consider him a truly exceptional poet, responsible for fomenting a revolution in the modern Iraqi ode, after its transformation at the hands of the 1950s pioneers (al-Sayyab, al-Malaika, al-Bayati, and al-Haydari).
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Special feature on Iraqi Poet and Writer Fadhil al-Azzawi
I was living in southern California in the San Fernando Valley having just started to teach at a California State University, Northridge. Northridge – in 1994 – was the site of one of the worst earthquakes and one of the costliest natural disasters in American history. The epicenter of the earthquake was Reseda, the town where I lived that year. My apartment was a spare post-graduate-school dwelling, with just books and more books, some still in boxes, an old TV and two old comfy chairs, alongside a working table.
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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
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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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