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Selected Issue: Banipal 55, Sudanese Literature Today (Spring 2016)
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A tribute to Fatema Mernissi (d. 30 Nov. 2015)
‘Who is the winner in globalisation, Sindbad the Sailor or The Cowboy? Such was Fatema Mernissi’s question and title of her talk that rainy Frankfurtian evening back in October, 2004. By then, debates on and around globalisation had reached the boredom phase. Thoughts and perspectives on globalisation were overwhelmed by repetition.
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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 The Mariner
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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)
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Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
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Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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