{"title":"Ahmad Saadawi","description":"Ahmad Saadawi was born in Baghdad in 1973 and is a novelist, poet, painter and journalist. He has published four books of poetry and two novels, with some short stories published in magazines. He has worked as a journalist and as a BBC correspondent in Baghdad (2005–2007). He now writes documentaries and screenplays for TV. He is one of the Hay festival's Beirut39 authors.","products":[{"product_id":"banipal-37-iraqi-authors","title":"Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors","description":"Banipal’s 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 we’ve been waiting to hear, however hard, and are indebted to all the translators and copy-editors who made the issue possible. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Writers who are completely new to Western readers are Nazum al-Obeidi and Nassif Falak (who has his own hair-raising personal story of flight, capture on a number of borders and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib during the Saddam regime), the atmospheric writer Enas al-Badran, Ahmad Saadawi and Shakir Nouri. PLUS many more . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePLUS\u003cbr\u003e• Glimpses into the powerful fiction of Yemeni author Ali Mohammed Zayd, of Egyptian novelists Mohamed al-Bisatie and Ezzat el-Kamhawi \u003cbr\u003e• An excerpt from Algerian poet Habib Tengour’s historical epic poem Ce Tatar-là, in translation by Marilyn Hacker \u003cbr\u003e• A short story from Flemish author Rachida Lamrabet, translated from the Dutch. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePLUS book reviews, and literary festivals photo-reports \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040832592,"sku":"2093114615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7c4d8b23-f236-489b-9f33-b84f89b1c374.jpeg?v=1752237886"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/ahmad-saadawi\/ghenwa-hayek.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}