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Wen-chin Ouyang
Wen-chin Ouyang is Professor of Arabic Literature at SOAS, University of London and teaches across a range of courses, including classical, modern and popular Arabic literature.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Libya, and a native speaker of Arabic and Chinese, she completed her BA in Arabic at Tripoli University and PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, in New York. She is author of Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition (1997), Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel (2012) and Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel (2013) and has also published widely on The Thousand and One Nights, and has contributed to many other volumes, including Companion to Magical Realism (Tamesis 2005), and New Perspectives on the Arabian Nights: Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons (Routledge 2005). She is also co-editor of The Novelization of Islamic Literatures – Omri, Mohamed-Saleh and Ouyang, Wen-Chin. (2007), Edinburgh University Press.
She was a member of the judging panel for Man Booker International Prize for Fiction 2013-15 and the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 62 - A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema (2018)
Banipal 61 - A Journey in Iraqi Fiction (2018)
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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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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Banipal Book Club
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