Receive Our Newsletter
For news of readings, events and new titles.
Past Events
Wed 23 May 2007
7pm
Poets House, 72 Spring St, 2nd floor, New York
7pm
Poets House, 72 Spring St, 2nd floor, New York
Banipal's first New York reading launched The Spring 2007 (No 28) special issue on contemporary Lebanese poetry, which featuring poems by both well-known and emerging poets, including:Ounsi el-Hage, Bassam Hajjar, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Paul Chaoul, Abdo Wazen, Inaya Jaber, Joumana Haddad, Zeinab Assaf, Abbas Beydoun, Yehia Jaber, Youssef Bezzi & Nazem al-Sayed, Etel Adnan, Wadih Sa'adeh, Jad el-Hage.
Poems read by
Sinan Antoon
Margarita Shalina
Christa Salamandra
Tarek el-Ariss
Margaret Obank
Surprise Visit of Iraqi Poet Fadhil al-Azzawi who read two poems
The evening was sponsored by Banipal magazine and xanadu Gallery, Beirut/New York
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
LATEST NEWS
.png)
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
* * *
Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
* * *
* * *
GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
* * *
* * *
* * *
Banipal's first audiobook* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
Banipal Book Club
* * *
