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Mahmoud Abu Hashhash
Mahmoud Abu Hashhash is a writer and a poet who lives in Ramallah, Palestine. He is the director of the Culture and Arts Programme in the A. M. Qattan Foundation. In 2004, he completed his MA in Art Criticism and Art Management from City University in London. He also holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Beirzeit in Palestine.
In the Autumn of 2002 he was awarded a residency in the University of Iowa program for International Writers after his first book of poetry was published by the Palestinian Poetry House in 2001. A second anthology of poetry followed in 2006 and in the same year his first novel was published in Amman, Jordan and in then in Algeria in 2007.
The novel was translated to French also in 2007 and was published in Paris under the title "Ramallah Mon Amour." His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and has been translated into a number of languages. He has also edited and co-edited a number of art catalogues of young Palestinian artists and their works.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 15 - /16 – Autumn 2002/Spring 2003
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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