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Atef Abu Saif
Atef Abu Saif is a
Palestinian writer. He was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in
1973, to a family originally from Jaffa. He holds a B.A. from Birzeit
University, an M.A. from the University of Bradford (UK) and a PhD in Political
and Social Sciences from the University of Florence, Italy. He teaches
Political Science at the University of Al-Azhar, Gaza, and is Chief Editor of
Siyasat magazine, published by the Public Policy Institute in Ramallah.
He is
the author of five novels: Shadows in the Memory (1997), The Tale of the
Harvest Night (1999), Snowball (2000), The Sour Grapes of Paradise (2003) and A Suspended Life (2014).
A Suspended Life has been shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and is excerpted in Banipal 52– New Fiction with the agreement of IPAF.
Atef Abu Saif has also published two collections of short stories, three plays and a
number of books of political science, including: Civil Society and the State: A
Foundational Reading with Particular Reference to Palestine (2005). He writes a
weekly article for the Palestinian Ayyam newspaper.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 15 - /16 – Autumn 2002/Spring 2003
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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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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