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Farouk Yousif
Farouk Yousif was born in 1955 in Baghdad and studied Art at the Academy of Fine Art in Baghdad.
He is a poet and art critic and his first collection of poems, Silent Songs, was published in 1996. Since then he has published six other collections of poetry. He has published five books of Art criticism, the first being The Mask of Paintings in 1996 and the most recently Biography of the Invisible in 2011. He has also participated in the writing of several other books of Art criticism. He has also published six travelogues the latest of which, Sleeping Paradise, came out in 2011.
He was the winner of the Ibn Battuta award in 2006 for his travel book Nothing Nobody. He has also worked as a critic for several newspapers including Al Hayat, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, An-Nahar and Al-Arab.
He is a Swedish citizen, and lived there with his family for a number of years before they moved to London, where they now live. He currently writes for Al-Arab newspaper.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
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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