{"title":"Abdo Wazen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-33","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 33","description":"Banipal 33\u003cbr\u003eAutumn\/Winter 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Let us go, you and I, on two paths: You, to a second life, promised to you by language in a reader who might survive the fall of a comet on earth. I, to a rendezvous I postponed more than once, with a death I promised a glass of red wine in a poem.”\u003c\/i\u003e — Mahmoud Darwish \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe issue opens with a major 70-page feature on the life and legacy of \u003cb\u003eMahmoud Darwish\u003c\/b\u003e. It includes articles, tributes, poems and many photographs of the great Palestinian and world poet, who passed away on Saturday 9 August following complications after major heart surgery in Houston, Texas, at the age of 67. “Darwish left behind,” writes Sinan Antoon, “an entire continent of poems whispering and singing inside Arabic and calling on us to reacquaint ourselves with its topography.” There are poems from Mahmoud Darwish’s last collection, translated by Catherine Cobham, to be published by Saqi Books next year as \u003ci\u003eIf I Were a Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and a long poem, written earlier this year \u003ci\u003eAt the Station of a Train which Fell Off the Map\u003c\/i\u003e, translated by Sinan Antoon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFellow poets, and writers from around the world contribute their feelings on his passing, including Saadi Yousef, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Denys Johnson Davies, Wole Soyinka, Mark Strand, Abdo Wazen, Kadhim Jihad Hassan, Alberto Manguel, Amjad Nasser, Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih, Giuseppe Goffredo, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Judith Kazantzis, Thomas Høegh, Peter Clark, Clara Janès, Gaber Asfour, Bernard Noël, Mohammed Bennis, Naomi Shihab Nye, Stephen Watts, Qassim Haddad, Saif al-Rahbi, Issa J Boullata, Taha Adnan, and Mahmoud Shukair. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe feature includes rare photographs of Mahmoud Darwish taken in the last months of his life as he worked with Arts Alliance Productions on their film project \u003ci\u003eIdentity of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e which screened open-air shows to packed audiences in Palestine in October.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3 of our series on \u003cb\u003eContemporary Syrian Literature\u003c\/b\u003e opens with poems by Adonis, selected from \u003ci\u003eMihyar of Damascus: His Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, a new volume in translation from BOA Editions. There is also fiction from Fawwaz Haddad, who is long-listed for the 2008-09 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, from Khalil al-Neimi’s  intriguing novel, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Deserting\u003c\/i\u003e, with short stories from Ibrahim Samuel and Gladys Matar, and poems from Hussein Bin Hamza.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanipal 33\u003c\/i\u003e includes many book reviews to whet readers’ appetites. They include \u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly’s Burden,\u003c\/i\u003e by Mahmoud Darwish, which won the 2008 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for its translator Fady Joudah, as well as a review of his own award-winning poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Earth in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e. 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We dedicate our major feature on Lebanese poetry to her memory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene, both contemporaneously and historically; this feature presents selected works by 32 poets celebrating, at the same time, the 50 years’ anniversary of the first issue of the revolutionary \u003ci\u003eShi’r\u003c\/i\u003e poetry magazine. Among the poets are those well-known outside the Arab world such as Ounsi el-Hage, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Abbas Beydoun, Abdo Wazen, Paul Chaoul and Salah Stétié, and many others who hopefully soon will be.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiction writers from Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait begin the issue. In Gamal el-Ghitani’s modernist masterpiece \u003ci\u003ePyramid Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, being published by AUC Press, the enigmatic power of the pyramids is skilfully interwoven with threads of Islamic history and Sufi mysticism in a quest for wisdom and enlightenment. Miral al-Tahawy’s latest novel \u003ci\u003eGazelle Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthralling first-person narration that unravels unexpected stories from an old family photograph; Fadhil al-Azzawi’s novel set in an Iraqi jail, \u003ci\u003eCell Block 5\u003c\/i\u003e, and reprinted in 2000, was made into a film in Syria. The narrator in Taleb Alrefai’s novel \u003ci\u003eSamar’s Words\u003c\/i\u003e is a young Kuwaiti woman, trapped and frustrated by society’s traditional ways. We look forward to seeing the latter three fully published in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe TRAVELLING TALE is a thoughtful walk around the pyramids by Lebanese poet, writer and cultural advisor Issa Makhlouf. 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