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Nabil Abu Hamad
is an painter, political cartoonist and caricaturist, with a weekly cartoon in Al-Hayat newspaper. He was born in the small Palestinian village of Kafr Yasif of a Lebanese father and Palestinian mother. After 1948 the whole family moved to Lebanon, where he studied law, literature and art, starting work on Lebanese newspapers as a cartoonist before becoming art director for 25 years for the weekly political magazine Al-Hawadeth.
When the magazine was forced to move from Beirut in 1977 during the civil war, he and his family moved with it to London, where they still live. He has exhibited his work at solo and group exhibitions in Beirut and London and studied drawing, printmaking and lithography at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art.
In 1988 he and his wife, Marie Sabia, founded the Argile Gallery, showing many international artists. A collection of his caricatures of well-known figures, Face Facts, was published by Cygnus, London.
Nabil Abu Hamad is also the author of two collections of short stories, and two novels – Al-Ateeli [The Cripple], excerpted in Banipal 29, Summer 2007, and to be published October 2007 by Banipal Books, and Beit min Al-Sharq [House from the East].
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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