Selections
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.
POETRY
Bassam Hajjar – Excerpt from The Interpretation of MarbleZeinab Assaf – Excerpt from Prayer for the Absent
Abdo Wazen – Three poems
Latest News
14/06/2013Ghassan Zaqtan and his translator Fady Joudah win the International Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems.
[read more]29/05/2013
Malayalam language review of Banipal 46 published in Madhymam newspaper
[read more]23/04/2013
Saud Alsanousi from Kuwait wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
[read more]22/04/2013
Moroccan painter novelist Mahi Binebine launches his novel Horses of God in the UK
[read more]19/04/2013
Marina Warner wins 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
[read more]10/04/2013
Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah shortlisted for International Griffin Poetry Prize
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