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Ali Bader
Ali Bader is an award-winning Iraqi novelist and journalist born in Baghdad in 1964. He has a degree in Western Philosophy and French Literature from Baghdad University. He has published eleven novels, two of them with English editons, Papa Sartre (AUC Press, 2009) and The Tobacco Keeper (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011). He writes columns in several Arabic newspapers, including Al-Hayat, Al-Mada and Al-Dustour, and has worked as a war correspondent covering the Middle East.
Ali Bader was awarded the State Prize for Literature in Baghdad and the Prize of Abulkassim al-Shabbi for the Novel in Tunis for his first novel, Papa Sartre, (reviewed in Banipal 17, Summer 2003). His third novel, Shata al-Ailah (Winter of the Family) won the Prize of Literary Creativity in the UAE and other two of his novels have been longlisted for The International Prize for Arabic Fiction: The Tobacco Keeper in 2009 and Muluk al-Ramal (Kings of Sands) in 2010.
In 2001 he left Iraq, and now lives in Belgium.
Papa Sartre was excerpted in Banipal 35 prior to its full publication by AUC Press.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal 41 - Celebrating Adonis (2011)
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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