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Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet and writer from Gaza. A graduate in English language, he taught English at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) schools in Gaza 2016–2019, and is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library, Gaza’s first English-language library.
As many of Gaza’s libraries were destroyed, he began a campaign in 2014 to collect donations of English-language books.
In 2019-2020, Mosab was a visiting poet and scholar at Harvard University, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature. He was also a visiting librarian-in-residence at Houghton Library and a columnist for Arrowsmith Press.
His work has been published by Poetry, Solstice, Arrowsmith, among others. Mosab is the author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, forthcoming from City Lights Books in April 2022.
Selected poems are published in Banipal 67 (Spring 2020), and Banipal 71 (Summer2021) featured "Leaving Childhood Behind" and other poems.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 67 - Elias Khoury, The Novelist (Spring 2020)
Banipal 71 - Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Summer 2021)
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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