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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 (2018)
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)
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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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