Banipal 66 – Travels presents works by five innovative travel writers: the Iraqi poet Farouk Yousif following Federico García Lorca’s footsteps in New York; Tunisian Hassouna Mosbahi who escapes to Andalusia; Algerian Said Khatibi in Sarajevo with his award-winning book The Inflamed Gardens of the East; Moroccan-Dutch Abdelkader Benali with an intriguing short story “To Tangier with Emmanuel”, and Syrian-Danish Monir Almajid who is a serious Japanophile. A second feature introduces Jordanian novelist Kafa Al-Zou‘bi who reveals Russian influences, while our Guest Writer series features British poet Linda France. Iraqi Yasmeen Hanoosh’s ‘remarkable’ experimental work, The Land of Accursed Bounties: the World of Iraqi Plants, opens the issue, followed by fiction from Lebanese Abbas Beydoun and Egyptian Ahmad Abdulatif and new poems from two excellent poets, Emirati Abdel Aziz Jassim and Palestinian Samer Abu Hawwash.