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- The new Judging Panel for the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is announced
- We at Banipal are very sad to lose our great friend, the inspirational Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, who passed away early Saturday morning, 12 June 2021
- Free access to digital edition of Banipal 51 – Celebrating Saadi Youssef for 30 days from 13 June
Chip Rossetti
Chip Rossetti has translated several works of Arabic fiction, including Beirut, Beirut by Sonallah Ibrahim, Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Towfik, and the graphic novel Metro by Magdy El Shafee. He is Editorial Director of the Library of Arabic Literature book series at NYU Press. He has a doctorate in Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards (Spring 2017)
Banipal 63 - The 100 Best Arabic Novels (2018)
Banipal 69 - Banipal 69 – 9 New Novels (Autumn/Winter 2020)
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 67 - Elias Khoury, The Novelist (Spring 2020)
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 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
Said Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
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