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Paul Blezard
Paul Blezard was the presenter, for eight years, of all 1700 editions of "Between the Lines," the author interview programme that helped Oneword Radio win two Sony Gold Awards. He was also the books reviewer on BBC Radio 2's The Green Room with Mariella Frostrup, and has appeared frequently on BBC Radio 4.
He has been the chair of events at numerous literary festivals from Hay-on-Wye to Deia and Dubai. His debut novel Saving Grace, set during his notoriously short time as the Literary Editor of The Lady magazine, is being published this year by crowd-funding publisher, Unbound. Click here for details on how to pledge and support.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 57 - Syria in the Heart (Autumn/Winter 2016)
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
Banipal 60 - Alaa al-Deeb, A Writer Apart (Autumn/Winter 2017)
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
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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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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Banipal Book Club
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