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Hassan Abdulrazzak
Hassan Abdulrazzak is a playwright, essayist and poet of Iraqi origin, born in Prague and living in London. he holds a PhD in molecular biology and has worked at Harvard and Imperial College. His plays include Baghdad Wedding (first performed 2007), The Prophet (2012) and the monologues Love, Bombs & Apples (2015).
He is working on the film adaptation of Baghdad Wedding and writing a second play about Iraq. His play The Prophet about the Egyptian revolution was staged at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, West London, in July 2012. It was directed by Christopher Haydon, who travelled to Cairo with the playwright to interview activists, revolutionaries, soldiers, journalists – the play was described by the Gate Theatre as "funny and terrifying".
His comic and daring monologue Love in the Time of Barriers was published in Banipal 38. It was performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015, in a series of four monologues by Abdulrazzak.
He has been commissioned to write a number of plays, including Dhow Under The Sun, and Catalina (both performed in 2015) and is currently working on a number of theatre, TV and film projects.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 38 - Arab American Authors (2010)
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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Banipal Book Club
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