{"title":"Iman Mersal","description":"Iman Mersal was born in 1966 in Mansourah, Egypt. She began publishing poetry at the age of sixteen and has since published four collections: \u003cem\u003eIttisafat\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eCharacterizations\u003c\/em\u003e) in 1990, \u003cem\u003eMamarr Mu‘tim Yasluh li Ta‘allum al-Raqs\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eA Dark Passageway is Suitable for Learning to Dance\u003c\/em\u003e) in 1995 and \u003cem\u003eal-Mashy Atwal Waqt Mumkin\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eWalking As Long As Possible\u003c\/em\u003e) in 1997. Her latest collection is \u003cem\u003eJiughrafia Badeela\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eAlternative Geography\u003c\/em\u003e) (2006).\n\nIn 1998, she moved to Boston and from there to Edmonton, Canada where she teaches Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta. \u003cem\u003eThese Are Not Oranges, My Love\u003c\/em\u003e, a selection of her poetry translated into English by Khaled Mattawa, was published by Sheep Meadow Press, USA, in 2008.\n","products":[{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-25","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 25","description":" \u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 25\u003c\/strong\u003e opens with a tribute to the late poet \u003cstrong\u003eMohammed al-Maghut\u003c\/strong\u003e whose death we learnt of as we were going to press. Little known in the West, al-Maghut was almost a household name in the Arab world, the influence of his innovative and lyrical poetic style (in just three collections) on generations of Arab poets since the late 1960s having been phenomenal. We were sad also to announce the death on 14 March 2006 of the pioneering Iraqi author \u003cstrong\u003eMahdi Issa al-Saqr\u003c\/strong\u003e, who had remained in Iraq throughout the Saddam era, continuing to write, but secluding his works from both the eyes of the censor and any readers. 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