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Past Events
Wed 29 July 2015
6.30 p.m.
Meetings room & Library, Arab British Centre, 1 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE
6.30 p.m.
Meetings room & Library, Arab British Centre, 1 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE
Library Open Evening
Do join us for a post-Shubbak, pre-holiday discussion and refreshments with publishers and literature promoters, and the chance to browse through displays of latest works
Ghazi Gheblawi, Libyan author, editor Darf Publishers
Mayada Ibrahim of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Fleur Montanaro, Administrator the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Susannah Tarbush, journalist and Banipal Trustee
With special displays of books
• Books in the Library by all the Shubbak authors
• The new Banipal 53 – The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer
• The entries for the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
• The IPAF winners/shortlist authors that are in English
Drinks & nibbles
This is a free event, but seating is limited so do RSVP by emailing info@arabbritishcentre.org.uk
Everybody Welcome!
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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