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Ahmad Yamani: Poem The Funeral

EDITORIAL

Sally Gomaa interviews the Egyptian author Alaa Khaled in his home city of Alexandria

Alaa Khaled: Excerpt from his autobiographical first novel A Pain as Light as a Bird’s Feather Floating Quietly from One Place to Another, translated by Sally Gomaa

Muhammad Khudayyir: A short story “The Three Wise Men”, translated by William Tamplin

Shahla Ujayli: A short story “A Dead Hand”, translated by Ayane Ezaki

Naguib Mahfouz: A short story “The Secret Organisation”, translated by Nathaniel Greenberg and Hagar Hesham Ahmed

Elias Farkouh: A chapter from the novel Drowned in Mirrors, translated by Jonathan Wright

ARAB LITERARY AWARDS

Abdo Wazen: The novel in the lead

Fatma Alboudy: The role of the literary editor

Ibrahim Farghali: Reviving the Arab literary scene

Chip Rossetti: On book prizes in the Arab world

Khalil Suwaileh: Awards, what have you done to the Arabic novel!

Hassan Yaghi: Reversing the course of regression

Ismail Ghazali: Pushing open frontiers

Fadia Faqir: Reflections on my experience as a judge of a literary prize

THE 2017 INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION – Excerpts from the Shortlist

Mohammed Hasan Alwan: Excerpt from the novel A Small Death, translated by Paul Starkey

Najwa Binshatwan: A chapter from the novel The Slave Pens, translated by Raphael Cohen

Ismail Fahd Ismail: excerpt from the novel Al-Sabiliat, translated by William M. Hutchins

Elias Khoury: An excerpt from the novel The children of the ghetto – My name is Adam, translated by Humphrey Davies

Mohammed Abdel Nabi: An excerpt from the novel In the Spider’s Room, translated by Jonathan Wright

Saad Mohammed Raheem: An excerpt from the novel The Bookseller’s Murder, translated by Jonathan Wright

 

Ashur Etwebi: An essay,
Yahya al-Sheikh’s Objectives,
illustrated with night and day drawings by Yahya al-Sheikh

 

 

 

LITERARY INFLUENCES

Mahmoud Saeed: Delineating Existence, translated by William M Hutchins

 

REMEMBERING HERBERT MASON (1932-2017)

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Fadia Faqir: Al-Khaima al-Baidha’ (The White Tent) by Liana Badr

Clare Roberts: Hend and the Soldiers by Badriah Albeshr

Olivia Snaije: The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer by Mustafa Khalifa

Abdo Wazen: Sulaf min Baghdad (The Sulaf  Tavern of Baghdad) by Muhsin al-Musawi

Susannah Tarbush: A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me and A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me by Youssef Fadel

Adil Babikir: Saba’t Ghurabaa’ fil-Madina (Seven Strangers in Town) by Ahmad Al Malik

Laura Ferreri: Otared by Mohammad Rabie

Becki Maddock: The Holy Sail by Abdulaziz al-Mahmoud and The Weight of Paradise by Iman Humaydan

 

TRIBUTE to HUSSAIN AL-MOZANY

 

“A marshlander has left us”
by Stefan Weidner

 

 

EVENTS

London and Manchester:

The 2016 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

Audience at the Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, celebrate Saif Ghobash Banipal Prizewinner Jonathan Wright and his author Saud Alsanousi

 

London:

Celebrating Banipal 57 – Syria in the Heart
with three authors from the issue at Waterstones Piccadilly:
Syrian poet Nouri Al-Jarrah
Iraqi novelist Muhsin al-Ramli

and

Flemish poet Charlotte van den Broeck
from the Guest Literature on Literature from Flanders

 

 

 

The translators of the issue are:
Hagar Hesham Ahmed, Adil Babikir, Raphael Cohen, Charlotte Collins, Humphrey Davies, Ayane Ezaki, Sally Gomaa, Nathaniel Greenberg, William M Hutchins, Paul Starkey, William Tamplin, Valentina Viene, Jonathan Wright

For information about all contributors to Banipal's issues – authors, writers, reviewers, illustrators, artists, and of course, all translators – check out their individual webpage at http://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/