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Ahmad al-Qarmalawi
Ahmad al-Qarmalawi was born in Cairo in 1978 and moved with his family to Kuwait in early childhood, where he received his elementary and secondary education. He graduated from the International American School in 1996, then moved back to Egypt to study Architecture at the American University in Cairo, and later continued post-graduate studies at the Edinburgh University, Scotland. His first work was a collection of short stories, The First of Abbas (2012). His first novel The Last Post was published in 2014 by Dar al-Masriah al-Lubnaniya, followed by two more novels, Destiny in 2015, and Summer Rains, published by Maktabat al-Dar al-Arabiyah lil-Kitab (Cairo, Egypt) in 2017, the latter winning the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Young Author category, and excerpted in Banipal 65 (Summer 2019). Besides writing, he is an avid painter and musician.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 65 - The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Summer 2019)
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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