Elias Khoury (1948-2024) Memorial tribute |
A knight’s tour of a chessboard, crisscrossing through continents and time! |
At Rest in the Cherry Orchard by Azher Jirjees |
The Secrets of Folder 42 by Abdelmajid Sebbata |
Winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 |
Shortlists for 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
2023 Winner of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize 2023 Shortlist Announced |
Free access all December to digital double issue Banipal 15/16 – Palestinian Literature |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Longlists for 2024 Awards |
More works from Banipal 45 by Palestinian authors |
Shadow of the Sun |
National Poetry Day 2023 |
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale |
Banipal Magazine Digital Archive |
The Judges and Entries of the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
The Stone Serpent is released in US July 11th |
The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners Announced |
Talk by Mohammed Sawaie on his book The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists for 3 categories: Literature, Young Author, and Literary & Art Criticism |
2023 IPAF Shortlst Announced |
Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature with Banipal |
2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize announces joint winners HUMPHREY DAVIES and ROBIN MOGER |
2023 IPAF Longlist Announced |
Invitation to Celebrate 25 Years of Banipal Magazine |
Banipal's first audiobook The Mariner |
The 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Shortlist |
Remembering Abdel Aziz al-Maqalih |
Banipal Magazine's Last Issue |
Remembering Humphrey Davies |
SZBA Longlists announced for 2023 Awards |
Frankfurt Book Fair and Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Annual Lecture 2022 |
BANIPAL 74, Summer 2022 |
Debut novel by Shada Mustafa, Things I Left Behind – 25 May discussion |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces Winners |
Available now: The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems |
Banipal 72 – Iraqi Jewish Writers |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces Shortlists |
Iraqi poet Hassab al-Sheikh Ja‘far |
Society of Authors’ annual Translation Prizes |
SARAH ENANY wins the 2021 Saiif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
Humphrey Davies (1947–12 November 2021) |
The 2021 Annual Lecture |
Remembering Sargon Boulus (1944–2007) |
Banipal news on International Translation Day |
Four new literary translations from Banipal |
The 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize – Judging Panel and Entries |
Saadi Youssef 1934–2021 |
Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 Winners announced |
2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners and Shortlists |
Shortlist 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Literature Shortlist |
Revista Banipal de literatura árabe moderna |
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist |
Mourid Barghouti (8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) |
Society of Authors Translation Awards Ceremony |
The winner of the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
2021 Fellowship is postponed |
Wishing everyone good cheer and happy times |
Arabic Language Day |
Latest issue of Banipal is published – No 69 |
Five works on the 2020 Shortlist |
24 Nov: Shortlist will be announced |
Liana Badr's lecture: Creating a Mosaic of Literature |
Celebrating Five Years of the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship |
Naima El Bezaz |
Summer issue of Banipal is published |
Elias Farkouh |
Fiction in Translation from Banipal |
Banipal publishes Tayeb Salih's memoir of his friend Mansi |
Banipal 67 – Elias Khoury, The Novelist |
2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
Banipal wins the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Publishing |
Banipal Book Club Online |
14 April the 2020 IPAF winner will be announced online |
2020 IPAF shortlist announced |
Winner of Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Announced |
Poetry for the Planet |
The amazing digital archive of Banipal |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 Literature Longlist |
Greetings for Christmas and 2020 |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2020 Longlists |
IPAF 2020 Longlist Announced |
Hammour Ziada awarded the 2020 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship |
Shortlist announced for the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
Banipal 66 – Travels |
Amjad Nasser 1955–2019 |
Adonis and Khaled Mattawa at London's Poetry International |
At the British Library on 7 November 2019 |
Banipal 65 – The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi |
Omani author Jokha Alharthi and Marilyn Booth win 2019 Man Booker International Prize |
Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh |
Syrian poet Nouri Al-Jarrah reads A Boat to Lesbos in USA |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners for 2019 |
Moris Farhi – the irreplaceable campaigner for writers' freedom |
"Wandering the Cities While Dead" – a short story by Sargon Boulus |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Short Lists |
No UK visa for Sudanese author Hammour Ziada |
IPAF Short List announced |
Announcing the winner of the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize |
IPAF announces Longlist for 2019 prize |
Announcing the Shortlist of the 2018 Prize |
What's between Goethe and Adonis |
Hammour Ziada is the 2019 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow at St Aidan's College, Durham University |
Ismail Fahd Ismail |
IV Odessa International Literature Festival |
SAFAR Film Festival |
Brooklyn Book Festival |
Remembering Hanna Mina |
Banipal 62 – A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema |
Remembering Denys Johnson-Davies |
Banipal 61 for Spring 2018 |
Najwa Binshatwin, the 2018 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow |
Ahmed Saadawi and Banipal |
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces the winners for 2017-2018 |
Ibrahim Nasrallah wins 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists |
IPAF shortlist for 2018 prize |
Translating Arabic Fiction Today |
Longlist for 2018 IPAF announced |
Robin Moger wins the 2017 prize for his translation of The Book of Safety by Yasser Abdel Hafez |
First Shortlist announced for Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Literature Longlist |
3 October 2017: 2018 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow announced |
Banipal events coming up in October |
Banipal magazine at the Berlin Literature Festival – 8 September |
Banipal 59 – The Longlist is published today, 13 July 2017 |
Robert Irwin to give 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture |
Pen International launches global campaign for displaced writers |
Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding open for applications |
IPAF winner 2017 is Saudi author Mohammed Hasan Alwan |
Banipal 58 – Arab Literary Awards |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Results of the 11th Session 2016-2017 |
International Women's Day |
IPAF Short list Announced |
Banipal's Complete Digital Archive is launched |
First Banipal Fellow is starting the Fellowship |
Celebrate the 2016 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prizewinner |
International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2017 |
Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa writes on th turmoil of being Syrian today |
Banipal 57 – Syria in the Heart |
Announcing the Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship |
16th Berlin Literature Festival starts today 7 September |
To mark 10 years of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize |
Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize 2016 |
The Ship No One Wanted |
WELCOME LITERARY SALON |
Sudanese authors & Banipal 55 at Waterstones Piccadilly on 14 June |
Translated Fiction in the UK growing in popularity |
Winner announced of International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 |
Banipal 55 on Sudanese Literature Today |
Amin Maalouf is Cultural Personality of the Year – SZBA announces |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners 2015-16 cycle |
SZBA Arab Culture in Other Languages shortlist |
Hartmut Fähndrich awarded highest Swiss literary prize |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2016 Shortlist for Literature & Children's Literature announced |
The 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
Shortlist of the 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
UK translator of Korean literature wins Arts Foundation Award |
Longlist announced for International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 |
Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh 14 January 2016 |
Paul Starkey wins 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
AlMultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story launched in Kuwait |
2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
International calls for release of poet Ashraf Fayadh |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2016 Longlist |
Zakaria Tamer at Waterstone's – a momentous and memorable occasion |
Shubbak Festival's Literature Weekend at the British Library |
Free Digital Banipal Access |
Banipal July Newsletter |
Longlist for FT / OppenheimerFunds EmergingVoices Awards announced |
Shukri Mabkhout is the 2015 IPAF Winner |
2015 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize opens for translation from Polish |
2015 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Winners |
The launch of SAUD ALSANOUSI's first novel in English translation |
THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2015 |
Emerging Voices Awards 2015 |
Celebrating the Winner of the 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, Sinan Antoon |
IPAF 2015 Shortlist |
Banipal Book Club |
2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2015 Longlist |
IPAF 2015 Longlist |
Successful Library Open Evening |
Arab Science Fiction: from Imagination to Innovation |
Eleanor Collins is the winner of the 2014 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize |
Denys Johnson-Davies reviews . . . |
Khaled Mattawa is awarded MacArthur Fellowship |
Free Digital Access to Banipal |
Alessandro Spina's Libyan Epic |
Remembering Mahmoud Darwish |
Saadi Youssef's Collected Poetical Works now on sale |
2014 IPAF winner is Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi |
Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation |
Amjad Nasser's first novel published in English edition – Land of No Rain |
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winners Announced |
Remembering the 5 March 2007, bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad |
Ounsi El Hage |
The 2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is awarded today |
International Prize for Arabic Fiction short list |
Remembering Mark Linz one year on |
2013 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prizewinners – Jonathan Wright and William M Hutchins |
Launch of The Storyteller of Jerusalem |
IPAF 2014 Long List |
Ahmed Fouad Negm died today 3 December 2013 |
Launch of Banipal 48 – Narrating Marrakech in London's Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, part of the borough's Nour Festival of the Arts |
Meet Ramsey Nasr on the 5th of November at the Dutch Centre |
SHORT STORIES FROM THE ARAB WORLD |
The Saison Poetry Library 60th birthday Celebration on 29th October |
UK National Poetry Day |
Hassam Abdulrazzak wins Arab British centre 2013 award for culture |
Arabic reading groups in Cairo, London and New York |
Maida Vale Library in London celebrates Arab Fiction Today |
International Berlin Literature Festival |
Banipal 47 - Fiction from Kuwait, out now in print and digital |
Serpentine and Qatar Museums Authority collaborate on Arab Arts Festival in London: 4-6 July 2013 |
Contemporary Arab Fiction – Jana Elhassan and Mohammed Hassan Alwan |
Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture |
Ghassan Zaqtan wins International Griffin Poetry Prize |
Review of Banipal 46 - 80 New Poems has been published in the Weekend edition of Malayalam-language newspaper |
Saud Alsanousi wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
Mahi Binebine launches his novel Horses of God in the UK |
Marina Warner wins Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist for Ghassan Zaqtan and translator Fady Joudah |
Farouk Abdel Wahab |
Iraqi Author Ahmad Saadawi writes for New York Times |
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here… Exhibition of the Project’s Inventory taking place in Manchester’s John Rylands Library |
Khaled Khalifa's In Praise of Hatred longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 |
STOP PRESS – Calling all Literary Translators of Arabic and Hebrew |
Book Launch for The Bottom of the Jar with author Abdellatif Laâbi and translator André Naffis-Sahely |
* MARK LINZ * |
Writers from Palestine Marwan Makhoul and Asma'a Azaizeh |
Writers from Palestine in London on 24 January |
Roger Allen wins Saif Ghobash Banipal Arabic Literary Translation Prize |
Nihad Sirees in London, 29 and 30 January 2013 |
Ramsey Nasr in Grand Finale of High Impact Literature Festival |
International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 Shortlist Revealed |
2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is awarded to Ezzat El Kamhawi |
An evening with Fadhil al-Azzawi |
International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 |
Banipal and the V&A's Friday Late: Record, Reframe, Resist |
Sleep Song: Chapter 2 |
Arab Nights by Metta Theatre in London and UK tour |
Ibrahim Nasrallah in London on first UK tour |
Monastery of the Moon launched in London |
Ibrahim Nasrallah's UK tour |
Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan launches new poetry book in UK 31 October to 3 November |
Remembering Sargon Boulus |
Arabic Translation Mentoring Opportunity |
A Week of Literary Prize Winners! |
Shorouk Penguin launches world literary classics in Arabic |
Sinan Antoon wins the 2012 National Translation Award |
BANIPAL 45 completes 15 years of publication |
Libyan authors at the Birmingham Book Festival – Ghazi Gheblawi, Giuma Bukleb and Mohamed Mesrati |
National Poetry Day in the UK – 4 October 2012 |
30/09/2012: Happy International Translation Day! |
26 September, European Day of Languages 2012 |
International Prize for Arabic Fiction announces new sponsor for 2013 Prize |
John Dryden Translation Competition |
Safar Film Festival 21-27 September: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema |
The Written World |
A Reading of Young Writers from Yemen and Morocco in Ann Arbor |
Egyptian poet Helmy Salem has died from lung cancer, aged 61 years |
Remembering a ground-breaking literary translation project |
Alif Ensemble – musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq |
Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize 2012 – from Chinese |
Happy Ramadan from everyone at Banipal! |
Mohamed el-Bisatie passes away 14 July 2012 |
Anna Lindh Foundation and Transeuropéennes release Report on Mapping of Translation in the Euro-Mediterranean region |
The 2012 Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival |
Banipal 44 – 12 Women Writers |
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award |
Banipal Celebration Reading at Poetry Parnassus |
Banipal Book Club's meetings reported in Brownbook and The National. |
Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies, aged 83 |
80-year-old Aharon Appelfeld's novel wins UK Independent Foreign Fiction Prize |
Three Percent's 2012 Best Translated Book Award Winners |
Three day International Poetry Festival in Tripoli |
New film about Etel Adnan |
RABEE JABER wins 2012 IPAF |
Three Iraqi Authors on UK Tour |
BANIPAL DIGITAL EDITION |
Ahmed Rashid Thani dies, aged 49 |
"A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century." Join Adina Hoffman as she speaks about the life and works of Taha Muhammad Ali |
Presentation of the Saif Ghobash - Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
'A Tribute to Adonis: Talks and Events' at Mosaic Rooms |
The 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
IPAF 2012 Shortlist Announced |
First Meeting of the Banipal Book Club |
Ibrahim Aslan suffers heart failure |
Celebrating Emirati Literature (in English Translation) |
On Tuesday 6 December, the judges of the Prix Goncourt de la poésie announced the 2011 winner, Lebanese poet, Vénus Khoury-Ghata. |
Celebrate the Authors and Translators in Banipals 42, 41 and 40 at a Winter Reception |
Arab Love Stories |
The longlist for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012 is announced, 10 November 2011. |
Khaled Mattawa's poem |
Come to the Mosaic Rooms to celebrate the first title in the Swallow Editions series. |
François Abu Salem – 1951 – 2011 |
Taha Muhammad Ali - 1931 - 2011 |
Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize |
Jad El Hage : 'One Day in April' |
Khairy Shalaby (1934-2011) |
Heavenly Life shortlisted for Popescu Prize for Poetry |
Today is the deadline for entries to the Young Translators' Prize |
Samuel Shimon interviewed in The National newspaper |
SHUBBAK |
Samuel Shimon on Dubai Eye radio |
Ramsey Nasr on BBC World Service's The Forum |
19/06/2011: Arabic Literary Translation Workshop |
18/06/2011:Ramsey Nasr at World Literature Weekend |
The Ziggurat Builders – PREMIERE |
Libyan authors at London Book Fair |
Samuel Shimon in conversation with Maya Jaggi at the London Book Fair |
Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize 2011 – from Arabic |
2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
Samuel Shimon at University of Texas at Austin |
Banipal 40 – Libyan Fiction |
Celebrating the 2010 winner and 5 years of the prize |
5th winner of Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation announced |
Happy New Year |
The Shortlist Finalist Announced for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2011 |
Longlist Announced for International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011 |
Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper features Ramsey Nasr's Heavenly Life |
Poetry International London 28 Oct to 7 Nov |
Tunisian Literature Panel Discussion at Frankfurt Book Fair |
Remembering Mahmoud Darwish |
Emirati Poets – from London to Assilah |
Emirati poets at London Literature Festival |
Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair |
Arabic Literature Events at London Book Fair |
Kikah.com celebrates 8th birthday |
Beirut39 authors in Beirut and the Launch of the Anthology of their works |
Banipal 37 – IRAQI AUTHORS |
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction Winner 2009-2010 |
One year ago – Tayeb Salih 1929-2009 |
Samah Selim wins the 2009 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
Translation Workshop – Cairo, January 2010 |
The Dissolving Cube Exhibition includes film of Hassan Najmi reading poem The Cape |
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
Arab literature with a difference |
Mahmoud Darwish: A River Dies of Thirst – Book Launch |
The Children of Shatila presents Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather |
Identity of the Soul |
Berlin International Literature Festival |
New versions of Banipal websites |
Beirut39 celebrates Arab literature with Bloomsbury |
14/07/2009: Insurmountable Obstacles Makes it Difficult for Visiting Artists to Enter UK |
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction |
Upcoming Events |
Beirut 39 |
The Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation |
Banipal wins 2008-2010 INCwriters Award |
Check out Banipal on Facebook! |
Banipal 34 – The World of Arab Fiction |
Bassam Hajjar 1955–2009 |
Mahmoud Darwish 1941-2008 |
Sargon Boulus 1944-2007 |