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Chip Rossetti
Chip Rossetti has translated several works of Arabic fiction, including the story collections Animals in Our Days by Mohamed Makhzangi and No Windmills in Basra, by Diaa Jubaili, as well as the novels Beirut, Beirut by Sonallah Ibrahim and Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, and the graphic novel Metro by Magdy Elshafee.
He works as the Editorial Director for the Library of Arabic Literature bilingual book series at NYU Press and has a Ph.D. in Arabic from the University of Pennsylvania.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 71 - Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards (Spring 2017)
Banipal 63 - The 100 Best Arabic Novels (2018)
Banipal 69 - 9 New Novels (Autumn/Winter 2020)
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 67 - Elias Khoury, The Novelist (Spring 2020)
Banipal 64 - A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh (2019)
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
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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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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
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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