Banipal 34 – The World of Arab Fiction Kamil Peteraj

Banipal 34 – The World of Arab Fiction Kamil PeterajBanipal 34 Spring 2009 The first issue this year is devoted to fiction writers from all over the Arab world from Egypt and Iraq, from Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Syria, and from Saudi Arabia. But we begin with tributes to the great writer Tayeb Salih, who sadly passed away in February and also pay tribute to two writers, Bassam Hajjar from Lebanon, and Yusuf Abu Rayya from Egypt, both aged 54. TAYEB SALIH (19292009) Tribute by Denys Johnson Davies

Russian Women Poets:

An extract from Bernard O'Donoghue's translation of Sir Gawain

Among the poets featured in these pages are: Tony Harrison

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The collection bears eloquent witness to translation as the supreme art of discovery and contains vivid and memorable recastings of the persuasive force of the Galician originals

Ori Bernstein

Like the collages

“Galicia has long been seen as our distant

The quarrel with others would have inspired

That’s What is a long love poem detailing the pain and suffering inflicted on the poet by his lover Maria and her final rejection of him

FEATURE ON Omani poet Saif al-Rahbi

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