Synopsis
Issue 4 includes interviews and appreciations on poet Mahmoud Darwish, novelist Albert Cossery, novelist Yusef Habshi al-Ashqar and novelist-playwright Ahmed al-Fagih. Plus works by 11 poets, six fiction-writers and articles on the Arabic Novel. EDITORIAL A door here, a window there - opening up the house of Arab literature FEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISH Poems, interview and appreciations Poem Without Exile, Who Am I? plus excerpts from The Damascene Ring of the Dove trans. Anton Shammas Poems: We Used to Lack a Present, Four Personal Addresses, Love Song from the Cross and Solo Performance trans. Ibrahim Muhawi Drought trans. Khaled Mattawa A Cloud from Sodom trans. Sargon Boulus Interview by Hassouna Mosbahi Appreciations by Anton Shammas, Bassam K Frangieh, David Kennedy, Stefan Weidner. FEATURE ON ALBERT COSSERY Albert Cossery – Appreciation, excerpt and interview James Kirkup: introduction and excerpt from the novel The latest news from al-Qahira Shaker Nouri interviews the Egyptian novelist Fuad Rifqa: Poems translated by Adnan and Paula Haydar Yusef Habshi al-Ashqar The Shadow and the Echo Excerpt from his trilogy with appreciation by translator Adnan Haydar POETRY Wadih Sa'adeh Maram al-Massri Seema Atalla Ahmad Kattouah Mohammad al-Harthi Nezar Andary Hatif Janabi Bassem al-Meraiby Mohammad al-Hussaini Abdulaziz Jassim INTERVIEW A writer at night Libyan author Ahmed Fagih talks with Margaret Obank FICTION Rachid Boudjedra Hassan Daoud Hussain al-Mozany Laila al-Ouhaydib Habib Selmi Iman H. Younes The Arabic Novel Faisal Darraj on the problems besetting Arab novelists The Poet and the Magazine Samuel Shimon on Saif al-Rahbi poet and editor of Nizwa BOOK REVIEWS Susannah Tarbush: Taha Husain's Education by Abdelrashid Mahmoudi Stefan Weidner: The Arabic Literary Heritage by Roger Allen Bassam K Frangieh: ’Aa’ed ila al-Quds [Returning to Jerusalem] by Issa J. Boullata Samir el-Youssef: Rites of Assent two novellas by Abd al-Hakim Qasim Margaret Obank: Bab el-Oued by Merzak Allouache Peter Clark: The Arab writer in English by Geoffrey Nash Margaret Obank: Bint Arab by Evelyn Shakir Lebanon: Four Journeys to the Past by Roseanne Saad Khalaf Susannah Tarbush: Sun on a Cloudy Day by Hanna Mina
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