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Hanoos Hanoos
Hanoos Hanoos is a painter, born in Kufa, Iraq, in 1958, who has lived in Madrid, Spain, since 1981, where he continues his creative work, and presently teaches modern art at various academies in Madrid.
His studies began at the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, in 1974. Later, after travelling to Italy and Europe, he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1984, where he gained a BA and PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, also studying History of Art and Aesthetics there.
He has held over 40 solo exhibitions, and more than a hundred group exhibitions, with his works exhibited in many public and private institutions, in Spain, UK, and around the world.
His numerous awards for his works, include first prize of the first Biennial of contemporary art of San Lucas, Plasencia (2019); the acquisition prize XIV Virgen de las viñas Painting Contest, Tomelloso (2015); the first Medina de Pomar National Painting Prize, Burgos (1994); the first XI Marbella International Biennial Painting Prize (1991); the first Ford Spain Painting Prize, Faculty of Fine Arts, Madrid (1986).
His works are featured in Banipal 73, where he is the cover artist.
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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