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Luke Leafgren
Luke Leafgren is an Assistant Dean of Harvard College and teaaches Arabic at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature in 2012. He has translated the debut novel The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi (2018), two of Mushin al-Ramli’s novels, Dates on my Fingers (2014) and The President’s Gardens (2017, excerpted in Banipal 57 in 2016) and Oh Salaam! by Najwa Barakat.
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Banipal 61 - A Journey in Iraqi Fiction
Azouz Begag
Daoud Abdel Sayed
Koutaiba Al-Janabi
SAFAR Film Festival
Ali Douagi
Mouloud Mammeri
Horses of God film and book
Opium & the Baton
Yahya Wagdy
Tayeb Salih
Mansoura Ez-Eldin
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies- 70 years translating Arabic literature
Assilah Forum Celebrates 20 years of Banipal
Joseph Fahim
Abdelrashid Mahmoudi
Ali Abdelameer Ejam
Abdo Wazen
Lutfiya al-Dulaimi
Liana Badr
Celebrating 40 years of Assilah Festival
SAFAR Film Festival
Ahmad Ali El-Zein
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Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship
Banipal Book Club
