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Muhammad Obaid Ghubash
Mohammad
Obaid Ghubash was born in Dubai in 1950. He has an
MA in Business and Philosophy from Schiller International University, UK, and a
PhD in Philosophy of Political Sciences from the University of Wales, UK. He
has worked as editor-in-chief for many papers and magazines, including Al
Azmina Al Arabia, after spending a year as counselor in the UAE permanent
office at the United Nations in 1975. From 1994-2004 he was professor in
political sciences at UAE University.
He has one novel Mazon (2000),
which was earlier serialized in Al Azmina Al Arabia, a work in English
on the establishment of the UAE, and his latest, a travel book, Ghafwa Inda al-Thi’ab (Sleeping
among Wolves), from which three of the tales were
translated and published in Banipal 51 – New Fiction. In his spare
time, Ghubash was president of United Arab Emirates Chess Federation (UAECF)
1977, 1986 and 1995; and in 1994 was deputy chairman of United Arab Emirates
Chess Federation (UAECF).
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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