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Banipal 7 - Spring 2000
CONTENTS
FEATURE ON SAADI YOUSSEF
Poems, with appreciations from Khaled Mattawa, Stefan Weidner, James Kirkup, Abbas Beydhoun
Mahmoud Shukair: Testimony, and Ten Short Stories
Amjad Nasser: Poems
Fawziyya Abu Khalid: Poems
Abdo Wazen: Poems
Nasser al-Dhaheri: Short story The Sounds of Moans
Zakaria Mohammed: Poems, with appreciation from Amjad Nasser
Hilmy Salem: poems
Mohamed el-Bisatie: Excerpt from his novel Clamour of the Lake
Nathalie Handal: Poem
Abdah Khal: Short story: The story of Rashid al-Haydari
Salman Masalha: Poems
Samuel Shimon: Royal Silver excerpt from novel
FEATURE ON ALGERIAN LITERATURE
Introduction by Waciny Laredj: Breaking the silence on Algerian literature
Mohammed Dib: Short story The Companion
Mohammed Dib: Poems, with appreciations by James Kirkup
Azzedine Mihoubi: poem
Rachid Boudjedra: Excerpts from two novels Turmoil and The Stubborn Snail
Taher Wattar: Excerpt from the novel The Earthquake
introduced by William Granara
Malek Haddad: Poems, with appreciation by Tahar BekriAbdelhamid Ben Haddouga: excerpt from novel, with appreciation by Brahim Sadi
Kateb Yacine: Poems
Mohamed Magani: Excerpts from the novel The Butcher’s Asethetic
Salah Khabacha: Poem
Abdel Aziz Gharmoul: Short story The Smell of the Opposition
Othman Loucif: Poems
Bashir Mufti: Wardah’s Confessions excerpt from novel
Katarzyna Pieprzak on Assia Djebar
Mehdi Charef: continuing excerpt from Alexina’s House
Kader Boubekri: poems
REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY ALGERIAN AUTHORS
Peter Clark Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
James Kirkup La Serment des barbares by Boualem Sansal
Lorraine Pounds Sherazade by Leïla Sebbar
and A tous qui partent by Fatma Z. Zamoum
Hazim Saghieh: America and the culture war
TRIBUTE
Bassem K. Frangieh pays tribute to Syrian novelist Hani al-Raheb
BOOK REVIEWS
Mona Zaki Houses behind the Trees by Mohamed el-Bisatie
Margaret Obank Seven by Ghazi Algosaibi
EVENTS
Cairo: Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Award
UNESCO: World Poetry Day established for 21 March each year
Amsterdam: Prince Claus Awards
London: The Caine Prize for African Writing
Selections from this issue
FICTION
Bachir Mufti – Excerpt from a novel
POETRY
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
Digital images
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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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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