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Kadhim al-Hallaq
Kadhim Al-Hallaq,
pen name of Kadhim Joni Mahdi, was born in Basra, Iraq. A fiction writer, he
was jailed in 1991 for speaking against the government and jailed again in 1994
for his involvement with a literary group. On release from prison, he fled via
Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the United States where he was granted refugee
status.
His short stories and non-fiction
have been published in Arabic literary journals, and a first collection of
short stories (“Shadow of Sleepiness") was published in 1997 in Damascus,
Syria. His Arabic translations of Deepak Chopra’s “Seven Spiritual Laws
of Success” and Piero Perrucci’s “What We May Be” are in the process of being
published, as is a new collection of very short stories called “The Telescope.”
He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona and supports himself as a barber while trying
to finish a novel. In 2000 he received the Hellman-Hammett Grant, awarded
to writers persecuted in their home countries
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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