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Ashur Etwebi (al-Twebi)
Ashur Etwebi, born in Tripoli in 1952, is one of Libya’s best-known authors. He is married, with five daughters and three sons, and was professor of medicine at the university of Zawia, in Libya. He has published six collections of poetry. He now lives in Norway.
He has published six books of poetry: Qsaed Al-Shorfa (Balcony Poems), Asdiqaoka Maro Min Huna (Your Friends Have Passed Through Here), Nahr Al-Mosika (Music River), Sundok ADhahikat Al-Qadima (Box of Old Laughs), Qsaed Min Aala Alhadaba WaZilal Al-Raml (Poems from Above the Hill and Sand Shadows), Fi MaaRifat Al-Ashyaa Wa Al-Kaena (On understanding creatures and things ), a novel, 'Dardadeen', and three books of translation; Anthology of international poetry, 'The Sky Quake', a long poem by Vicente Huedobro, and Sadat Al-Haiku: Masters of Japanese Haiku in four centuries.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 58 - Arab Literary Awards (Spring 2017)
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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