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Yasmeen Hanoosh
Yasmeen Hanoosh was born in Basra, Iraq, in 1978 and lived in Baghdad until 1995, when she went to live in the USA. She is a bilingual Iraqi scholar, writer and translator who works across languages and genres. She studied at the University of Michigan, and has a BA Hons in Philosophy and Religious Studies, an MA in Arabic Literature, and a PhD in modern Arabic Literature.
She is the author of The Chaldeans: Politics and Identity in Iraq and the American Diaspora (I.B. Tauris, 2019). Her Arabic stories have appeared in Kikah Magazine, while her English translations have appeared in literary journals, including Banipal, World Literature Today, and The Iowa Review. She is the translator of Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes (National Endowment for the Arts Award, 2010).
Her first translation of a novel, Scattered Crumbs by Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, was awarded the University of Arkansas Press Arabic Manuscript translation prize and published by the press in 2003, with an excerpt in Banipal 17, Summer 2003.
Her latest work, The Land of Accursed Bounties, Stories from The World of Iraqi Plants, is excerpted in Banipal 66 prior to its publication in Arabic.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
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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