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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

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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)

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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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