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Mohammed al-Sharekh
Mohammed al-Sharekh was born in Kuwait in 1942. He has a BA in Economic Development from Cairo University, and an MA from Williams College, MA, USA.
He has held many governmental positions in Kuwait, and was Founding Chairman/MD of the Industrial Bank of Kuwait in 1975.
He founded his own company Al-Alamiah in 1980, which in 1982 launched Sakhr Software Company. He was the first person to develop Arabic language software for computers and IT.
He has two collections of short stories, Ashar Qisas (Ten Stories), published by Dar Qurtas Publishing, Kuwait, in 2006 (2nd edition), and Asrar wa Qisas Oukhra (Secrets and other stories), published in 2016 by al-Badawi for Publishing and Distribution, Tunis, and one novel Al-Aela (The Family) published by Qudmos Publishing, Beirut, 2008.
Banipal 68 – Short Stories published translations of "My Son" from his first collection, and “Secrets” and “On Holiday” from the second collection.
Contributor's Issues
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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