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Soheir el-Masadfa
Soheir el-Masadfa is an Egyptian poet, novelist, translator and scholar, and has a PhD in Philosophy from Moscow University. She was editor-in-chief of the Kitabat Jadidah (New Writing), a series of books published by General Egyptian Book Organisation (GEBO), and is now director of GEBO’s series publishing prizewinning books in translation into Arabic.
She has published two collections of her own poetry, in 1997 and 1999. She has three novels, her debut novel Lahwu al-Abalisah in 2003 (reprinted 2005 and 2014) won the Egyptian Writers’ Union award for Best Novel for 2005, her second novel, Miss Egypt, came out in 2008 (reprinted 2014), and her third one, Rihlat al-Thiba’a in 2013 (reprinted in 2014). She has also translated children’s stories from Russian into Arabic, including stories by Pushkin and many other children’s stories, folktales and fairytales by Alexander Afanasyev.
Contributor's Issues
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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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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