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To celebrate publishing 21 issues of Banipal, we invited friends, literary translators, authors, professors and journalists to share with readers their thoughts on the achievements of the magazine and its role in developing dialogue and exhange between cultures. CONTENTS Cover artist: Azzawi Editorial – 21 issues of dialogue and exchange Hoda Barakat – Chapters from Disciples of Passion Fadhil al-Azzawi – Chapters from The Dead City Mohammed Achaari – Eight Poems Emad Fouad – Two Poems Akram al-Katreb – A poem My Father Vénus Khoury-Ghata – A poem The Sailors Without a Ship Faisal Darraj – Mamdouh Adwan and the freedom of the prolific creator Sinan Antoon – Five Poems Tarek Eltayeb – A Short Story The Sweetest Tea with the Most Beautiful Woman Amina Saïd – Five Poems Eskandar Habache – Poem I Suffer from Autumn Shimon Ballas – Excerpts from the novel Outcast Ammiel Alcalay on A Unique Chronicle of Iraqi History Mahmood Abdel Wahab – Two Short Stories A Different Kind of Woman and An Exceptional Passer-by Mahdi Issa al-Saqr on Mahmood Abdel Wahab Faraj Bayraqdar – Eight Poems Maher Menzalji – A Short Story The Grand Plan Jalil al-Qaisi – A Short Story Zulaikha Fadhil al-Azzawi on Jalil al-Qaisi Haifa Bitar – From the novel A Woman of this Modern Age Ashur Twebi – Six Poems Qassim Haddad – Five Poems Gamal el-Ghitani – A Short Story The Crop Samuel Shimon – The Assyrian Bear, a chapter from a novel Mohammad al-Abbas – Women Novelists in Saudi Arabia BOOK REVIEWS Stephen Watts She Says by Vénus Khoury-Ghata Maudie Bitar A Woman of this Modern Age by Haifa Bitar Guy Bennett A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor, poems by Maram al-Massri Stephen Watts Poems of Mourid Barghouti A Small Sun Mona Zaki Novel of Youssef al-Mohaimeed Traps of Scent LITERARY INFLUENCES Abbas Beydhoun The Stranger, The Outsider and the Foreigner
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