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Alaa Khaled
Alaa Khaled, born in 1960 in Alexandria, Egypt, studied biochemistry and went on to become a well-known son of the city as a poet, novelist and literary editor. In 1999 he founded the literary and cultural magazine Amkenah (Places) that focuses on the “poetry of place” and the relation between people and places. Alaa Khaled is well known for relentlessly ignoring the formal boundaries that are supposed to separate literary genres, creating his own style and narrative.
An interview with him about his work and ideas and a chapter from his autobiographical first novel A Pain as Light as a Bird’s Feather Floating Quietly from One Place to Another, both by Sally Gomaa, are published in Banipal 58.
He has published six collections of poetry, three books of essays and reportage, among the latter, Everything Happens Quietly With No Surprises (Alexandria, 2004) which was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2005, and his latest work, Alexandrian Faces.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards (Spring 2017)
Banipal 60 - Alaa al-Deeb, A Writer Apart (Autumn/Winter 2017)
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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