Butterfly Valley Haifa Bitar

Butterfly Valley Haifa BitarThe late 1980s witnessed two devastating chemical attacks by the Saddam rgime on Iraqi Kurdistan. The first of these, in 1988, known as the Anfal campaign, saw the destruction of 3000 Kurdish villages, over 40 chemical attacks launched, and 100,000 civilians buried in mass graces, with hundreds more dying of exposure to chemical weapons. The second attack was on the town of Halabja where over 5000 people died instantly. Thousands of people who had

"The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene

was published in 1953 and her short story collection

Banipal 59 – The Longlist is packed with fiction and features for summer reading

Fuad Rifqa: Poems

Glastonbury and Latitude Festivals

In the first half we meet the family which also includes: an often glamorous mother

and we are pleased to present an excerpt from his novel Yalo

heroes and poets

Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria

controversial yet ultimately triumphant campaign

made national headlines and propelled children's poetry into the curriculum of many schools in London and beyond

Best of Irish Poetry 2009 (Southword Editions) and Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden