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Ibtisam Azem
Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian writer and journalist. She was born in Tayibe, in the area known as the Triangle, North of Jaffa. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later at the University of Freiburg (Germany), where she completed an MA in Islamic Studies and German and English Literature.
She works as a senior correspondent covering the United Nations for the Arabic daily al-Araby al-Jadeed, after working as producer and correspondent for Deutsche Welle TV-Arabic in Berlin and New York. She has published essays and short stories in Al-Akhbar, Qantara.de, and al-Jazeera.net. She is also a co-editor at Jadaliyya e-zine.
Her first novel, Sariq al-Nawm (The Sleep Thief) was published in Beirut by Dar al-Jamal in 2011. Her second novel, Sifr al-Ikhtifaa (The Book of Disappearance) was published in 2014, also by Dar al-Jamal, and is excerpted in Banipal 54 – ECHOES (2015), translated by Sinan Antoon. The Book of Disappearance is published in English translation by Syracuse University Press, 2019, translated by Sinan Antoon, and in Italian by Hopefulmonster, 2021 translated by Barbara Teres, and also forthcoming in Hebrew and German. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 54 - ECHOES (Autumn/Winter 2015)
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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