Selections of poems and fiction, sampling the richness and variety of the hundreds of authors in the issues. Plus a chance to hear and see a few of the authors in performance.
Selections
Selected Issue: Banipal 24, Autumn 2005
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Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
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Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
Saïd Khatibi
Tayeb Salih
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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
Sarajevo Firewood
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
The Tent Generations
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
The Madness of Despair
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Digital images
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
Saïd Khatibi
Tayeb Salih
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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
Sarajevo Firewood
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
The Tent Generations
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
The Madness of Despair
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