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Ibtisam Barakat
Ibtisam Barakat is an author, poet, translator
and artist from Palestine. She lives in the United states and writes in both
English and Arabic.
Her memoir in English about growing up in Ramallah, Tasting
the Sky, a Palestinian Childhood, won more than twenty awards and honors,
including the International Reading Association's Best Book in 2008, and Best
Literary Book on the Middle East, and was designated an American-Library
association Notable Book, and a Book for a Global Society. It is now available
in six languages.
Her recent book, in Arabic, Al-Ta' Al-Marbouta Tateer,
about a letter in the Arabic alphabet who refuses to do what it is supposed to
do in a word, won the Anna Lindh Foundation's award: Read Here, There and
Everywhere, for best literature for young readers in Arabic in 2011. For
more information about Ibtisam Barakat, please visit her website: www.ibtisambarakat.com
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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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Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
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