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Charis Olszok (née Bredin)
Charis Olszok (née Bredin) is a Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture, and a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies for King’s College, University of Cambridge. She has a first class honours BA in French and Arabic from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Arabic Literature (Distinction) from SOAS. She finished her PhD, also from SOAS, in 2016, which looked at the depiction of animals in modern Libyan fiction from 1965-2011.
While studying for her MA she worked with Banipal and translated a number of fiction texts for Banipal issues.
Her fiction translations include African Titanics by Abu Bakr Khaal, Ebola ’76 by Amir Tag Elsir (co-translation with Emily Danby) and forthcoming by Banipal Books, Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi, which was the author's debut novel published in 1987. The first chapters of Goat Mountain are excerpted in Banipal 59 – The Longlist.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 48 - Narrating Marrakech (2013)
Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef (2014)
Banipal 59 - The Longlist (Summer 2017)
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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Banipal Book Club
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