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Khaled Hroub
Khaled Hroub is a professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Arab Media Studies at Northwestern University, Qatar, and a senior research fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books on Middle East politics and media, culture and political Islam and writes weekly on current affairs for the Arab press.
His academic writings have been published in Middle East Journal,
Middle East International, Journal for Palestine Studies, ‘Shu’un
Arabyya’, Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Outre Terre and Internationale Politik
and he publishes a weekly article in Arab dailies in Jordan, Qatar,
Egypt, UAE, Oman, Palestine, Mauritania and the UK. He has also
published in the Beirut Daily Star, the International Herald Tribune, El Pais and La Razon.
He is a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and has authored two non-fiction works – Hamas: A Beginners Guide (2006) and Hamas: Political Thought and Practice, (2000).
He hosted Al-Jazeera TV’s weekly book review show 2000–2006, then the only show of its kind on Arab TV screens. He also worked for the International Institute of International Studies and for a Mauritanian-based NGO.
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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