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Eyad Barghuthy
Eyad Barghuthy was born in Nazareth in 1980. He graduated from the Baptist High School there, then studied sociology and political science at Tel Aviv University. In 2006, he published a collection of short stories called ‘Nuduuj’ (‘Maturity’). His short story collection ‘Bayn Al-Buyuut’ (‘Among the houses’) was awarded a young writer’s motivation award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah in 2008 and was published by Dar Malaamih Publishers (Cairo/Beirut) in 2011.
In 2009, his tale 'Al-Samma‘ah’ (‘The Headset’) was awarded a prize in the ‘Sea of Words’ short story competition (Anna Lindh Foundation and European Institute of the Mediterranean). Barghuthy has also written four plays and the script for a short film. He is editor for the weekly Fasl Al-Maqaal journal and Project Director for the Arab Cultural Association in Nazareth. He lives in Acre.
NB: Eyad Barghuthy's short story "A Fateful Meal", published in Banipal 45 – Writers from Palestine will be discussed at the V&A's 30 November Friday Late: Record, Reframe, Resis, which will be hosted by the Banipal Book Club. Click here for more details of the event. The story was selected and translated for Banipal 45 from the author’s latest short story collection Bayna al-Buyut (Between the Houses), published by Dar Malaamih (Cairo–Beirut), 2011.
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)
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Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
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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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