Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors Francis Jones

Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors Francis JonesBanipals first issue of 2010 celebrates authors from Iraq with over half its 224 pages devoted to fiction and poetry by 21 writers from different generations, some spread across the world, but many writing from within the country. We celebrate, in particular, a new generation of Iraqi fiction writers and poets who are free to write the story of Iraq weve been waiting to hear, however hard, and are indebted to all the translators and copy editors who

but the war and then the death of his father forced him to leave without completing his degree

London: Mourid Barghouti Reading

During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps

Plus a tribute to the late Taher Wattar (1936-2010)

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Sebastian Matthews

Shakir al-Samawi

by turns malevolent

THE INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Stefan Weidner of the Goethe Institute’s Fikrun wa Fann magazine

The story of W

João de Jesus Paes Loureiro

yellowed with a cancer