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Banipal 74 - Celebrating Khalida Said and Modern Arabic Poetry (Summer 2022)
Front cover photo of Khalida Said © Archives Arwad Esber
Editorial, with special announcement on Banipal magazine
INTERVIEW WITH SARGON BOULUS
Sargon Boulus – Interviewed by Hassan Najmi, translated by Jonathan Wright
FOUR POETS
Khaled Mattawa – Four Poems
Liana Badr – A Poem: Words on the Run from the Thrall of Night, translated by Jonathan Wright
Naji Rahim – Five Poems, translated by Youssef Rakha
Basim Al-Ansar – Poems from “A Life Surrounded by Trees”, translated by Raphael Cohen
INTERVIEW WITH ETEL ADNAN
Etel Adnan – Interviewed by Nouri Al-Jarrah, translated by Jonathan Wright
Salah Niazi –Murad Mikhail: Iraqi Pioneer of the Prose Poem, translated by Raphael Cohen
Mahmoud Chreih –Tawfiq Sayigh: The Unicorn in Captivity
Abdo Wazen – Tawfiq Sayigh and the First Prose Poems, translated by Samira Kawar
Tawfiq Sayigh – Two letters to Denys Johnson-Davies
SPECIAL FEATURE ON
LITERARY CRITIC
KHALIDA SAID
Abdo Wazen – Khalida Said: A School of Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, translated by Nancy Roberts
Khalida Said – Interviewed by Dima Al-Choukr, translated by Nancy Roberts
Khalida Said – On the Modernist Poetry Movement, translated by Raphael Cohen
Fares Youakim – Khalida Said and Theatre Criticism, translated by Ameer Jafar Kamal
Dima Al-Choukr – Khalida Said: Criticism is Poetry’s Sibling, not its Father, nor its Son, translated by Ameer Jafar Kamal
Fatima Al-Muhsin – Khalida Said and Recollections on the Image of Arab Women, translated by Samira Kawar
Khalida Said – A Portrait of Saniya Salih, translated by Ameer Jafar Kamal
Khalida Said – Gibran and the Endlessness of the Movement for Renewal, translated by Raphael Cohen
Akl Awit – Khalida Said – A Warrior and a Visionary Critic, translated by Maissa Arfaoui
BOOK REVIEWS
Gretchen McCullough reviews The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Hamdi Abu Golayyel (translated by Humphrey Davies)
Samira Kawar reviews The Book Smuggler by Omaima Al-Khamis (translated by Sarah Enany)
Mona Abulnasr reviews Hesn Al-Turab (The Earthen Fortress) by Ahmad Abdulatif
Graham Liddell reviews Mashaniq al-‘Atmah (Gallows of Darkness) by Yousri Alghoul
Joselyn Michelle Almeida reviews American Parables by Daniel Khalastchi
Maggie Obank reviews Lobbying for Palestine, A Collective Struggle for the Future by Samir Shawa
BOOKS IN BRIEF
Mister N by Najwa Barakat, translated by Luke Leafgren (And Other Stories, Sheffield, UK) 2022
No Windmills in Basra by Diaa Jubaili, translated by Chip Rossetti (Deep Vellum Publishing, Dallas, USA) 2022
Sons of the People, the Mamluk Trilogy by Reem Bassiouney, t
A Moon will rise . . . by Christiane Dabdoub-Nasser (David Paul, London, UK) 2021
LITERARY EVENT
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2022
CONTRIBUTORS
The translators of this issue are:
Maissa Arfaoui, Raphael Cohen, Ameer Jafar Kamal, Samira Kawar, Youssef Rakha, Nancy Roberts, Jonathan Wright
For information about all contributors – authors, translators, reviewers, editors – to this issue and others, go to https://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/
UK representation and sales
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)
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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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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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