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Tarek Eltayeb
Tarek Eltayeb was born to Sudanese parents in Cairo in 1959 and has lived in Vienna since 1984. He
studied at Ain Shams University, Cairo, and later Social and Economic Sciences at the Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration, gaining a PhD in the Transfer of Ethics through Technology. He currently teaches at three Austrian universities.
He has been writing since 1985 and has published three novels, two collections of short stories, five collections of poems, a play, an autobiographical book and a collection of essays. His books have been published in German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Macedonian, Romanian and Serbian translations. Some of his short stories have been published in Banipal 1, 9 and 21, and in the collection of North African Short Stories Sardines and Oranges, Banipal Books 2005. into English (Cities without Palms, AUC Press, and in 2009 Arabia Books), and The Palm House (AUC Press, 2012), both translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.
His awards include the Elias Cannetti Fellowship from the City of Vienna. In 2008, he was appointed Austrian Ambassador for the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue (EJID). In the same year, he received the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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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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