Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature

Banipal Books was established in 2004 by Banipal's then editor Margaret Obank in order to strengthen and expand the work of Banipal Magazine by publishing in book form works by contemporary Arab authors. The first two titles were published in March 2005.

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A Boat to Lesbos

by Nouri Al-Jarrah
ISBN: 9780995636941

Paperback • 120pp
Illustrated with 20 paintings by Reem Yassouf

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An Iraqi In Paris

by Samuel Shimon
ISBN: 9780957442481

Paperback • 282pp

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A fully revised third edition in translation of this best-selling ‘gem of autobiographical writing’ in the Arab world, by an author who has been called ‘a relentless raconteur’, ‘a modern Odysseus’, ‘the Iraqi Don Quixote’.

Knife Sharpener

by Sargon Boulus
ISBN: 978-0-9549666-7-6

154pp • £7.99 • $15

Selected Poems
translated from the Arabic by the author

Knife Sharpener is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus in this collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died.

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Heavenly Life

by Ramsey Nasr
ISBN: 978-0-9549666-9-0

180pp • £7.99 • €12 • $15
Selected Poems

First English-language collection for Ramsey Nasr, the Palestinian-Dutch Poet Laureate of the Netherlands.

Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Introduction by Victor Schiferli and Foreword by Ruth Padel

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“With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope," writes renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker

Shepherd of Solitude

by Amjad Nasser
ISBN: 978-0-9549666-8-3

186pp • £7.95 • $15

Selected Poems

Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poet's Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.

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Mordechai's Moustache and his Wife's Cats, and other stories

by Mahmoud Shukair
ISBN: 978-0-9549666-3-8

Paperback • 124 pages • £7.99 • $15
Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives, the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival . . .

SHORT STORIES FROM THE ARAB WORLD on 24 October 2013 included the title story of this book

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A Retired Gentleman, and other stories

by Issa J Boullata
ISBN: 978-0-9549666-6-9

Paperback • 120 pages • £7.99 • $15
From Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. George, Kamal, Mayy, Abdullah, Nadia, William, all have to begin their lives again, learn how to deal with their memories, with their pasts . . .

Unbuttoning the Violin

by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel and Abed Ismael
ISBN: 0-9549666-2-7

Paperback. 128pp. £3.95

Poems and short stories by four young Arab authors celebrating their tour of the UK August 2006 with Banipal Live, a partnership of Banipal magazine with the British Council and The Reading Agency.

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