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Abdelkader Chaui
Abdelkader Chaui was born in October 1950 in Bab Taza, Morocco. After graduating in Philosophy and Arabic Literature Abdelkader Chaui worked as a teacher in Casablanca until he was arrested for political reasons in November 1974. In 1977 he started a 20-year prison sentence, having been accused of taking part in a coup to topple the regime and belonging to a banned political party. He was finally released at the end of 1989. He is the author of six novels and seven other works on politics and philosophy, and publishes his works in the Moroccan and Arab press.
Chaui began to publish his writing in 1968 in Moroccan and Arab newspapers and magazines, and joined the Moroccan Union of Writers in 1970. He wrote his first novel kana wa akhawatiha (Kana and her sisters) in 1986 while he was in prison. When he was released in 1989, he published his second novel, dalil al-’unfuwa. In 1999 he won the Moroccan Book Prize in the fiction category for his fourth novel, assahah ash-sharafiyah. In 1991 he launched the magazine ‘Ala Laqal (At Least), and after it was banned he launched the newspaper al-Mawjah (The Wave) in June 1993 and then al-Akhbar (The News) in 2003. He has also translated works from Spanish to Arabic. He is at present the Moroccan Ambassador to Chile.
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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