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Past Events
Mon 05 May 2008
3.30pm
BBC Radio 4
3.30pm
BBC Radio 4
Readings from Sardines and Oranges
Monday 5th : The Crop by Gamal el-Ghitani
(translated by Mohammed Shaheen, pub. Banipal 21 & Sardines and Oranges)
Tuesday 6th : The Furnace by Rachida el-Charni
(translated by Ali Azeriah, pub. Banipal 10/11 & Sardines and Oranges)
Wednesday 7th : If She Comes by Tayeb Salih
(translated by Shakir Mustafa, pub. Banipal 22 and Sardines and Oranges)
Thursday 8th : Provisions of Sand by Said el-Kafrawi
(translated by Mona Zaki, pub. Banipal 9 and Sardines and Oranges)
Friday 9th : You Taught Me To Love Life, Father by Aroussia Naluti (translated by Ali Azeriah, pub. Banipal 24)
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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