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Akram Musallam
Akram Musallam was born in Talfit near Nablus in 1972. He has graduated from the department of letters at the University of Birzeit and holds an MA in International Studies from the same university. He writes for the daily al-Ayyam and is editor-in-chief of the political quarterly magazine al-Siyasa.
He published his first novel Hawajis al-Iskandar (Alexander’s Obsessions) in 2003. His second novel Sirat al-‘aqrab alladhi yatasabbab ‘araqan (The Tale of the Scorpion that Dripped with Sweat) was published by Dar al-Adab in Beirut in 2008 after winning the A. M. Qattan award and has been translated into French and Italian.
In 2010, Musallam won a grant from the Arab Art and Culture Fund for his third novel Iltabas al-amr ‘ala al-laqlaq (Confusing the Stork), which will be published soon by Dar al-Ahliya in Amman, Jordan.
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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