Banipal 40 – Libyan Fiction Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim

Banipal 40 – Libyan Fiction Ibrahim Mohammed IbrahimBanipal's Editor Samuel Shimon writes: "This is Banipal's 40th issue, and what an amazing coincidence that it should be dedicated to the celebration of Libyan literature at such an extraordinary historical moment in the Arab world when the region is witnessing a chain of uprisings and revolutions against dictatorial and corrupt regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and, finally, Libya. "We at Banipal are very proud of this special issue on Libyan

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he was imprisoned in Matera

among others

Shaker Noori on Looking at the Emirati Novel

Francis Jones on Jan Twardowski (translated by Sarah Lawson and Malgorzata Koraszweska) and A Fine Line: New Poetry from Central and Eastern Europe

Kadhim Jihad Hassan

Mikhail Grobman

Hamdy el-Gazzar – Chapters from the novel Black Magic

He speaks at length about al-Sayyab and the poets he loves and it was with difficulty that I persuaded him to talk about himself

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The more she looked

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