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Yassin Adnan
Yassin Adnan was born in 1970 in Safi, Morocco. He has published nine works, four of poetry and four of short stories, and with Saad Sarhan, the bilingual prose poem/essay, Marrakech: Open Secrets, published in its entirety for the first time in English translation in Banipal 48 – Narrating Marrakech. In 1991 he published, with Saad Sarhan, a literary magazine Aswat Muassira [Contemporary Voices], and later, with Saad Sarhan, Taha Adnan and Rashid Nini, the magazine al-Gharah al-Shiriya [Poetic Attack].
After teaching English in a high school, he became a TV presenter, becoming well known for his weekly cultural magazine “Macharif” on the Moroccan television channel Alaoula. He is currently conducting interviews with cultural and literary figures from the Arab world in a TV series called Bayt Yassin (Yassin’s House) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ya9Z5sptFY&feature=share)
He studied English Literature at the University of Marrakech (BA, 1992) and earned a Diploma in Educational Science at the University of Mohammad V in Rabat. His literary awards include the prizes of Moufdi Zakaria (Algeria, 1991), of the Union of Writers in Morocco (1998) and the Buland al-Haydari prize for the young poet (Assilah, 2003).
His novel Hot Maroc was longlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and a chapter published in Banipal 59 – The Longlist, and available to read online here.
Contributor's Issues
Banipal 48 - Narrating Marrakech (2013)
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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