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Robin Moger
Robin Moger is a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction, currently living in Cape Town, South Africa.
He graduated with a degree in Egyptology and Arabic from Oxford University in 2001 before travelling to Cairo to work as a journalist for the Cairo Times magazine. Following its closure he became a full-time professional translator.
He is the translator of A Dog With No Tail by Hamdi Abu Golayyel (AUC Press, 2009), winner of the 2008 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, and Vertigo by Ahmed Mourad (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011), and is one of the translators of the anthology Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World (2010).
His translations include Yasser Abdellatif's The Law of Inheritance and Iman Mersal's How To Mend: Motherhood and its Ghosts, both published in 2018, All the Battles by Maan Abu Talib (Hoopoe Fiction, 2017), The Book of Safety by Yasser Abdel Hafez, which won the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, and Otared by Mohammad Rabie (Hoopoe Fiction, 2016, also entered for the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize), Yousef al-Mohaimeed’s Where Pigeons Don’t Fly (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2015), Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles (Seven Stories Press, 2014) and Yousef al-Mohaimeed's Where Pigeons Don't Fly (BQFP, July 2015), both reviewed in Banipal 52, Egyptian author Nael Eltoukhy's novel Women of Karantina (AUC Press, 2014), and Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus (I B Tauris, 2013), which won the 2013 English PEN Award for outstanding writing in translation.
His most recent translation is Slipping (Eflat Al Asabea, Kotob Khan Publishing House, 2018; Two Lines Press, 2021).
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 66 - Travels (Autumn/Winter 2019)
Banipal 52 - New Fiction (2015)
Banipal 53 - The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer (2015)
Banipal 48 - Narrating Marrakech (2013)
Banipal 56 - Generation '56 (Summer 2016)
Banipal 46 - 80 New Poems (2013)
Banipal 40 - Libyan Fiction (2011)
Banipal 41 - Celebrating Adonis (2011)
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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