Banipal is keen to promote live literature events that include Arab authors. Check out this section for news of events that Banipal is organising or is involved in. For a photo report of a recent event, click here.
Forthcoming Events
Please check back another time for future events.
Receive Our Newsletter
For news of readings, events and new titles.

The Cinderellas of Muscat by Huda Hamed (Banipal Books, 2025)

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

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)

Saïd Khatibi

Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)

Digital Banipal the full archive

Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York

Sarajevo Firewood

The Madness of Despair
LATEST NEWS
* * *

* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *

* * *
* * *
Link to excerpt from Mahmoud Shukair's novel Shadows of the Family, published in Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
* * *
Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
* * *
Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
A free Black Lives Matter learning resource from the digital archives of over 50 different publications
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
Banipal Book Club
* * *