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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.
His latest translation is the collection of short stories No Windmills in Basra (Deep Vellum Press, 2022), by Iraqi writer Dhia Jubaili, which won the Almutaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story.
He works as the Editorial Director for the Library of Arabic Literature bilingual book series at NYU Press and has a PhD on the Iraqi writer Muhammad Khudayyir from the University of Pennsylvania.
His short translations have appeared in the White Review, Asymptote, Banipal and Words Without Borders.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 71 - Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Summer 2021)
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)
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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