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Selected Issue: Banipal 32, Summer 2008
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Remembering a pioneering writer
As a tribute to Lebanese author May Menassa, who sadly passed away suddenly on 21 January, Banipal brings to readers' attention the excerpt from her novel Walking in the Dust, that was published in Banipal 32, Summer 2008, after it was on the shortlist of the first International Prize for Arabic Fiction in April 2008.
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