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Mansour El-Souwaim
Manour El Souwaim was born in 1970 in Nyala, in the Darfur District of Sudan. He studied Critique Studies at the College of Music and Drama of the Sudan University of Sciences and Technology.
He has published four novels. Tukhoum el-Ramad (2011), Dhakirat Shirrir (2011) (A Rogue's Memory) translated into French as Souvenir d'un enfant des rues (Paris 2012) and excerpted in Banipal 55 – Sudanese Literature Today, Ashbah Frensawy (Cairo 2014), Akhir el-Salateen (Cairo 2014).
He was selected as one of the Beirut39, the Hay Festival's project for the best young Arab authors under the age of 39, and published his work in the Beirut39 Anthology (Bloomsbury UK/ USA (edited by Samuel Shimon) and New Voices, by IPAF, containing works of eight writers who participated in the IPAF Prize's writers' workshop in Abu Dhabi, in Arabic and English (Al-Saqi, London, 2010). Several of his novels and short stories have been translated into English and French.
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)
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Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
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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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