Synopsis
22-page feature on Moroccan novelist, poet and essayist Tahar Ben Jelloun. Feature on works by Ten Iraqi Poets. PLUS works by 6 other poets and 10 fiction-writers including appreciations. Article by Mahmoud Darwish on Translating Poetry. CONTENTS EDITORIAL Feature on TAHAR BEN JELLOUN poet, novelist and essayist with drawings by Azzawi J M G Le Clézio: Tahar the wise Stefan Weidner: Homage to the Unknown Dead Excerpts from the poems The Raising of the Ashes and Ephemeral Childhood Maati Kabbal: The Polyphonies of Ben Jelloun James Kirkup: Ben Jelloun’s Italian journeys Excerpt from the novel Labyrinthe des sentiments with illustrations of Ernest Pignon-Ernest Tahar Ben Jelloun talks to Pierrre Maury Excerpt from poem Le Discours du Chameau with an appreciation by translator Margaret Furniss Mai Ghoussoub reviews Harrouda Mona Zaki reviews Corruption Margaret Obank reviews Ben Jelloun’s trilogy The Sand Child, The Sacred Night and The Wrong Night and French Hospitality Mahmoud Darwish: On translating poetry The Place of the Universal Haidar Haidar: Excerpt from the novel The Desolate Time Bassam K. Frangieh: Essay Haidar Haidar – novelist of social change Etel Adnan: Three poems Abdallah Zreka: Excerpts from “Black candle drops” Ahmed Barakat: Three poems Sabri Moussa: Three short stories Rafik Schami: Three short stories Ulla Kasten: Rafik Schami – Damascene storyteller Yahya al-Qaissi: Short story Shattered desires TEN IRAQI POETS Selected poems of: Salah Niazi Sargon Boulus Sadiq al-Sayegh A K EL Janabi Hashim Shafiq Amal AL-Jabouri Muniam Alfaker Adnan Mohsen Fadhil Sultani Dalia Riadh Issa J. Boullata: Short story Bar-room confessions Saleh al-Azzaz: Short story Chirping May Tilmissany: Excerpt from the novel Dunyazad Roger Allen: Essay Possibilities of meaning and delicious ambiguities Muhsin al-Ramly: Short story Boredom Faraj Bou al-Isha: Six poems Sabah Zwein: Selected poems Leila Marouane: Excerpt from the novel The Abductor Hoda Ablan: Twelve poems BOOK REVIEWS Samir el-Youssef: Out of Place by Edward Said Susannah Tarbush: The Honey by Zeina B. Ghandour Susannah Tarbush: Tony Hanania’s islands of desire Peter Clark: Eros Island by Tony Hanania
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