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Thaer Deeb
Thaer Deeb was born in Latakia, Syria, in 1962. A writer, editor and prolific translator of cultural and philosophical works into Arabic, he is dedicated to translation and cultural work. He is presently Deputy Director of the Translation Unit at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies.
Between 2012 and 2014 he was editor-in-chief of Tabween, the Centre’s quarterly magazine of intellectual and cultural studies. He was an advisor for the “Knowledge Transfer” project between UNESCO and Bahrain’s Ministry of Culture.
He is a former editor-in-chief of Josoor magazine, a quarterly concerned with translation and its studies issued by the Syrian General Book Organization of the Ministry of Culture; also a former editorial board member of Al-Adab al-Alamiyya, of the Arab Writers Union, Damascus.
He is writes frequently in the Arab cultural and intellectual press, and has published many studies and research in Arab periodicals. He also edited a number of articles in the Arabic Encyclopedia, published by the General Authority of the Arabic Encyclopedia, Damascus.
He has participated in many Arab and international conferences concerned with issues of thought, culture and translation.
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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