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Banipal takes its name from Ashurbanipal, last great King of Assyria and patron of the arts, whose outstanding achievement was to assemble in Nineveh, from all over his empire, the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East. CONTENTS: Feature on Araqi authors; Tribute to Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004); Tribute to Mohamed Choukri (1935 - 2003); a selection of profiles, poems and short stories; one novel excerpt and book reviews. TRIBUTE to Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004) from Banipal, Abdo Wazen, Abdu Khal, Abdallah al-Ghathami, Sa’ad al-Bazei, Gamal el-Ghitani and Ibrahim Abdel Meguid. Interview by Eskandar Habache TRIBUTE to Mohamed Choukri (1935-2003) with photographs from his life with writers EDITORIAL Mohammed Bennis – Profile & Poems James Kirkup – letter to Mohammed Bennis Ghalia Kabbani A short story Dreams of a Well-Bred Girl Abdo Wazen Selected Poems Zahir al-Ghafri Selected Poems Mohammed Sof A short story A Very Marginal Man Joumana Haddad Five Poems Latifa Baqa – short story Bad Soup! Ebrahim al-Khaldi Two poems Ziad Khaddash A short story The Absence of a Sister Youssef al-Mohemeed Three Poems Ahmad Nuaimi A short story The Dictator’s Delicacy Hassan Nasr Four Very Short Stories Marwan Ali A poem Mohja Kahf Two poems FEATURE ON IRAQI AUTHORS – part 3 Fawzi Karim Selected Poems, introduced by Saadi Simawe Kadhim Jihad Essay The Iraqi landscape in the early poems of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab Lutfiyya al-Dulaimi A short story What the Storytellers Did not Tell Golala Nouri Three Poems Najim A Mustafa – Tales from Three Bags of Raisins Kadhim al-Hallaq Three Short Stories Abid Jaafar A short story A Maze of a House Mahmoud Sa’id A short story Bitter Morning Samuel Shimon Two Poems Salima Saleh Short story Those Boys Sinan Antoon – Excerpt from novel Diacritics BOOK REVIEWS Richard McKane Miracle Maker, selected poems of Fadhil al-Azzawi Margaret Obank Adama by Turki al-Hamad Anthony Thwaite Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa Margaret Obank The World’s Embrace by Abdellatif Laâbi James Kirkup Continent de douleurs by Fawzi Karim Susannah Tarbush Fatma by Raja Alem James Howarth The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni and Saeed the Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby Shakir Mustafa Where the Rivers Meet by Herbert Mason Mona Zaki Qawarib Jabaliyyah by Wajdi al-Ahdal LITERARY INFLUENCES Hassouna Mosbahi James Joyce in Tunisia
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