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Selections
Jack Hirschman
The Way to End War
The Way to End War
A Poem for Saadi
THE WAY TO END WAR
When the planet’s as it is today
chockablock with wars
at every click of the computer,
turn of the dial,
button on the teevee remote,
and greed and religions’ hatreds
hatch eggs of grief everywhere
like deathballs, and old ladies
are stamping on throwaway
soda cans worth pennies in the street
and fascist capitalism gives us
a digitalized semi-robotic
comic strip life with a laugh a minute
when that big busty bimbo
takes it all off,
how cam anyone say that communism
isn’t necessary? It’s failed, of course,
NOT!
It’s the way to end war! The only
hope left. The rest is waiting
for atomicide.
Published in Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef
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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 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)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
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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