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Ishaq Bar-Moshe (1927–2003)
Ishaq Bar-Moshe (1927–2003) Ishaq Bar-Moshe was born and. raised in Baghdad. He was educated at the Rachel Shimon elementary school, Rusafa middle school and completed high school at the Ahliya Jewish school. From 1945–48 he studied at the Law College.
He worked as an editor at a number of newspapers including al-Shaab and al-Ahali. After being forced to emigrate in 1950, he left Iraq for Israel, where he founded the Jerusalem-based newspaper al-Anba‘a. Ishaq died of heart disease in Manchester on December 9, 2003.
His first collection of short stories was Wara al-Sur (Behind the Walls), followed in 1974 by al-Dibb al-Qutbi wa-Qisas Ukhra (The Polar Bear and Other Stories) and Raqsat al-Matar wa-Qisas Ukhra (Rain Dance and Other Stories). The first part of his memoir, al-Khuruj min ‘Iraq (Exodus from Iraq) appeared in 1975, followed in 1988 by the novels Ayyam al-Iraq (Iraqi Days) and Bayt fi Baghdad (A House in Baghdad).
Contributor's Issues
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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