Banipal 73 – Fiction Past and Present Rowena Edlin-White

Banipal 73 – Fiction Past and Present Rowena Edlin-WhiteThis issue is a delicious mix of pioneering, emerging and established authors from around the Arab world. short stories by three pioneering writers Emile Habiby, Fuad al Takarli and Mohamed Choukri works by established novelists Ezzat el Kamhawi (The Travellers Room) and Emna Rmili (Beach of Souls) first time in English translation for fiction writers Reem Al Kamali, Mohammed Alnaas, Dima al Choukr, Khalid Al Nassrallah and Bushra Khalfan also

Mahmoud Chreih and Abdo Wazen on two major pioneers in Arabic prose poetry – Iraqi-Jewish Murad Mikhail (1906–1986) and Syrian-Palestinian Tawfiq Sayigh (1923-1971)

“To the Winds Our Sails is a vibrant and moving homage to what can be found in translation

and what this reveals about our common human capacities to indulge grandiose visions

and who is to say his dream-work doesn’t tell just as powerful truths about Caribbean reality

and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency

me with the others

FEATURE ON IRAQI AUTHORS – part 3

artistic creation

Poems with an elaborated discursive structure sit next to little imagist poems written in response to Trinidad’s disappearing fauna and threatened eco-system

In prose of baffled grace

who encourages her to leave the past behind and reinvent herself

Jim left England in his teens