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Etel Adnan (1925–2021)
Etel Adnan
24 February 2025 – 14 November 2021
Today, 14 November 2021, Etel Adnan, passed.
Deepest condolences and sympathies to her life-long partner Simone Fatale.
Etel Adnan was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and painter. She studied Philosophy at the Sorbonne and at the universities of Berkeley and Harvard, and taught Philosophy in San Rafael, California. She travels widely for readings, lectures and exhibitions of her paintings. A bilingual poet and writer, she writes mainly in English.
Banipal interviewed Etel Adnan for Banipal No 2 (Summer, 1998) entitles: Private Syntheses and Multiple Identities
She was a consultintg editor of Banipal magazine almost since its inception.
She will be greatly missed by countless people aroimd the world who have been touched by her humanity, her paintings and by her poetry and all her writings.
In Banipal 74 (Summer 2022) we published an interview with Etel Adnan by poet and editor Nouri Al-Jarrah, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright, which he had conducted with her 25 years before when founder editor of Al-Katiba magazine. In homage to Etel Adnan, who had been a consulting editor of Banipal almost since its inception, we publish this interview online as a selection from the issue.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 10 - /11, Spring 2001/Summer 2001
Banipal 74 - Celebrating Khalida Said and Modern Arabic Poetry (Summer 2022)
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
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 Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
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
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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