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Past Events
Tue 27 June 2017
6.30pm for 7.00pm start
Waterstones Piccadilly 203-206 Piccadilly, London W1V 9LE
6.30pm for 7.00pm start
Waterstones Piccadilly 203-206 Piccadilly, London W1V 9LE
Banipal has great pleasure
in inviting you to our next Waterstones Piccadilly evening on
Literary Awards in the Arab World
Photo of Mohammed Hasan Alwan © Kheridine Mabrouk
6.30pm, TUESDAY 27 JUNE
Waterstone's Piccadilly Bookshop
203/206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD
With special guest Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan,
winner of this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel A Small Death,
Fleur Montanaro, IPAF Prize administrator ,
Walid Hamarneh of Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding,
and Samuel Shimon, editor, Banipal magazine
Do join us for an evening of talks, questions and readings about Literary Awards in the Arab World,
with Paul Blezard in the chair, in the wonderful venue of Waterstones Piccadilly bookstore
Copies of Banipal 58 – Arab Literary Awards
and Mawt Saghir (A Small Death) will be on sale
ALL WELCOME
This is a free event but places are limited, so do reserve your place
by telephoning 020 7851 2400 or emailing events.piccadilly@waterstones.com
Download an invitation here
Supported by 
An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon
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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