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- DIGITAL BANIPAL is your own open window on the literature of the Arab world
- Liana Badr gives the 5th Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture on 11 November in a Special Online Event with the British Library
- On 4 November Liana Badr’s novel The Eye of the Mirror, translated by Samira Kawar, will be discussed at the Banipal Book Club
Selections
Selected Issue: Banipal 61, A Journey in Iraqi Fiction (2018)
FICTION
Six ways of crossing borders illegally
This novel by Iraqi writer Dhia Jubaili is an allegorical reading of the Sunni-Shi’i sectarian conflict following the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq. In a fantastical re-enactment of Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, an Iraqi man falls into the hands of two terrorists, a Chechen and an Afghani, on the Iraq-Syria border.
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