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Almog Behar
Almog Behar is a poet, novelist, translator, editor and critic. Behar was born in 1978, and now lives in Jerusalem. He has published six books, the latest being Kdey She-Hamelach Yitpazer al Ha-Ahava (Rub Salt into Love, 2021). His novel Chahla ve-Hezkel (Rachel and Ezekiel, 2010), excerpted in Banipal 72 – Iraqi Jewish Writers (2021), was translated into Arabic by Nael el-Toukhy and published in Cairo in 2016.
Behar is one of the founders of the Judeo-Arabic cultural studies program at Tel Aviv University, and teaches in the Literature Department at Tel Aviv University.
His other books include: Zim’on Be’erot (The Thirst of the Wells, 2008), Ana Min Al-Yahoud (I am one of the Jews (in Arabic in the original), 2009), Chut Moshekh Min Ha-Lashon (A Thread Drawing from the Tongue, 2009), Shirim Le-Asirei Batei-HaSohar (Poems for the Prisoners, 2016).
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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