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Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-6 November 2014) was born in Tunisia. He was a prolific writer, poet, novelist, intellectual and translator (Arabic-French). He moved to Paris as a young man, studying art history and literature. He became Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and editor of the international French-language literary journal Dédale.
He was a visiting professor at Yale University and guest lecturer at universities and research centres in Geneva and Florence and published more than 12 works in French.
In 2002 his book La Maladie de l’islam was published (Seuil), and in English translation in 2003 under the title, Malady of Islam (Basic Books, New York). It has since been translated into Arabic, Bosnian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. He curated an exhibition in Barcelona’s Centre for Contemporary Culture, “West by East”, about how Westerners, Europeans in particular, have been seen, past and present, by the Islamic East (26 May to 25 September 2005).
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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