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Stephanie Petit
Stephanie Petit studied Linguistics at SOAS University of London. Since 2017, she has worked as a Digital Archivist in the Endangered Languages Archive, SOAS, where, among other things, she maintains digital collections of Modern South Arabian.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 68 - Short Stories (Summer 2020)
Banipal 65 - The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
Banipal 67 - Elias Khoury, The Novelist (Spring 2020)
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present (Spring 2022)
Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present (Spring 2022)
Banipal 75 - Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature
Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem (Spring 2021)
Banipal 69 - 9 New Novels (Autumn/Winter 2020)
The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)
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
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)
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
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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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