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Dima al-Choukr (Alchukr)
Dima al-Choukr is a Syrian critic and translator, born in Damascus, 1972. She writes articles for the Arab cultural press.
Her debut novek Ayna Ismi? (Where's My Name), published by Dar al-Adab in 2021 (240 pages), is excerpted in Banipal 73 and also reviewed in the same issue by Katia al-Tawil. The excerpt is online and can be read here. A historical novel, it was longlisted for 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
In the field of literary criticism, she has published Prosody, Past and Present and Arabic Prosody in the 13th Century (Post Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad), co-written with the French researcher Bruno Paoli. She has also translated French works into Arabic, including In Praise of Borders by Régis Debray and The Mirror of Damascus by Jean-Pierre Filiu.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present (Spring 2022)
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal 74 - Celebrating Khalida Said and Modern Arabic Poetry (Summer 2022)
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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