Banipal 15 - /16 – Autumn 2002/Spring 2003

Double issue

Cover Artists
Vladimir Tamari, Samira Badran

CONTENTS


EDITORIAL Palestinian Literature: Solidarity with Admiration

Abd al-Aziz al-Maqalih: Selected poems from The Book of Sana’a
Saadi Youssef: Two poems
Hala Mohammad: Poems
Jamil Hatmal: Short story The Testimony of a Carpenter called Wahid
Samuel Shimon: Poems
Zuhair al-Jezairy: The Scream – an excerpt from a novel

FEATURE on CONTEMPORARY PALESTINIAN LITERATURE
Mahmoud Darwish
Sahar Khalifeh
Aida A Bamia
Huzamah Habayeb
Samer Abu Hawwash
Rasmi Abu Ali
Naomi Shihab Nye
Seema Atalla
Saud al-Asadi
Mahmoud Shukair
Faisal Darraj
Izzidin al-Manasrah
Adania Shibli
Jihad Hudaib
Zakaria Mohammed
Ziad Barakat
Ghassan Kanafani
M Obank on Ghassan Kanafani
Sharif S Elmusa
Iman Bassir
Majed Atef
Omar Shabbanah
Bassam Frangieh on Emile Habiby
Atef Abu Saif
Salman Natour
Musa Hawamdeh
Mahmoud al-Rimawi
Nasri Hajjaj
Ahmad Dahbour
Omar al-Qattan reviews Joe Sacco's Palestine
Samir el-Youssef
Mahmoud A Hashhash
Anas al-Ayla
James Kirkup — reviews Abu Jmeel's Daughter and other stories
Ziad Khaddash
Mohammad Ghanaiem
Salman Masalha
Hussein al-Barghouthi
Nathalie Handal
Khaled Abdallah
Raba’i Madhoun
Ala’a Hlehel
Rashad Abu Shawar
Susannah Tarbush on Laila al-Atrash

Walid Khazendar
Youssef Abdel-Aziz
Issa J Boullata
Liyana Badr
Ghazi el-Theeba
Khairi Mansour
Riyad Baydas
Mourid al-Barghouti
Yahya Yakhlif
Larissa Bender on Yahya Yakhlif
Ghassan Zaqtan
A M Qattan Foundation


BOOK REVIEWS
Mona Zaki They Die Strangers by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
James Kirkup A Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi


EVENTS

London: Poetry International – Saadi Youssef, Amjad Nasser
Mainz: World Congress ME Studies awards Edward Said
Casablanca: Third International Poetry Festival