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Emna Rmili
Emna Rmili is a Tunisian writer and researcher, and is a professor of literature and criticism at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Sousse.
Her works include three collections of short stories and five novels, in addition to her academic research and other writings on political, intellectual and progressive issues. She has one poetry collection, I love you, oh you!, written in Tunisian Arabic.
She has twice been awarded Tunisia’s Golden Comar Prize for the Arabic Novel – in 2003 for Jamr wa Ma’a (Embers . . . and Water), and in 2016 for her novel Toujane.
At the end of November 2020 her house, in the city of Sfax, was attacked by unidentified persons, who entered, seizing some items and burning them. The attack was attributed to takfiri groups who objected to “the writer’s bold ideas and stances calling for freedom of expression, change and women’s liberation”. The attack drew condemnation and outrage among Tunisian and Arab intellectuals. Her latest novel, Beach of Souls, is excerpted above.
Her novel Shatt al-Arwah (Beach of Souls) is excerpted and reviewed in Banipal 73.
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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
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Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
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Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
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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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