u003cbu003eu003ciu003eSarajevo Firewoodu003c/iu003e, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) award in 2020, explores the legacy of the recent histories of two countries - Algeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina - both of which experienced traumatic, and ultimately futile, civil wars in the 1990s.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u...
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GHALYA F T AL SAID
The Madness of Despair tells the story of Maliha, who is living in London with her husband Nafie after an arranged marriage in their distant Arab homeland. ?The couple become good friends with Doctor Nadim, a fellow exile, but in the twists and turns of the friendship, the men's nostalgia for their old lives - and old ways of living - come into conflict with Maliha's ambition t...
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ALREFAI
Taleb Alrefai salutes Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in this fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi is lost at sea in a treacherous storm. In between fishing for seabream with two friends, the retired sea captain looks back on how the sea has been calling him since childhood, on the punishing work o...
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NOURI AL JARRAH, / NURI JARRA?
A Boat to Lesbos, by Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah (his first collection in English translation), was written as Syrian refugees endured frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages they suffered, seen through the eye of history, the poetry of Sappho and the trave...
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La primera revista Banipal sobre literatura árabe moderna traducida a esa lengua fue publicada en 1998 con una doble vocación, por una parte dar a conocer al mundo anglosajón la literatura árabe como parte de la cultura universal, y por otra parte, abrir puentes de diálogo entre culturas. Este verano Banipal lanza su número 0 en castellano con los mismos objetivos con el públic...
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AL-AZZAWI
First time ever in English translation for this acclaimed 'open work', published in Arabic in 1969 to great acclaim, written in defiance of the "sanctity of genre" and to raise the question of freedom of expression in writing. Variously called a novel or a prose poem, the author calls it an epic in prose, divided into cantos. In mid-1960s Iraq such an open-ended form, in which ...
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MORSI
Ahmed Morsi is a renowned painter as well as a prolific art critic, journalist, translator, and, as this book reveals to a new audience, a consummate poet.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003ePoems of Alexandria and New Yorku003c/iu003e, Ahmed Morsi's first volume in English translation, captures the modernity and empathy at the heart of all his works, his surrealistic humor, a...
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