{"title":"Inaya Jaber","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-28","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 28","description":"Every issue now we seem to be saying farewell to a well-known Arab literary figure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis time, we open sadly with a tribute to \u003cb\u003eMai Ghoussoub\u003c\/b\u003e, the London-based Lebanese co-founder of Al Saqi Books, writer and artist, who died so suddenly in February. 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. INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR is with Hesham Behari of Alhambra Förlag, who publishes Arab authors in Swedish translation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis year has begun on a high note for translating Arab literature, as the editorial reveals, with a first delegation of UK publishers at the annual Cairo Book Fair, the collaboration of the Frankfurt Book Fair team with the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, the announcement of a new International Prize for Arabic Fiction in association with the renowned Booker Prize Foundation, and our sister organization, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, announcing that after a successful first year in 2006, the Banipal Prize will be sponsored for the next five years by Omar Saif Ghobash in memory of his late father, and will now be known as The Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation (see www.banipaltrust.org.uk)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur cover artist is the well-known Egyptian painter (and translator from Italian) Adel El Siwi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial\u003cbr\u003eMai Ghoussoub – a Tribute\u003cbr\u003eMiral al-Tahawy Excerpt from the novel Gazelle Tracks\u003cbr\u003eFadhil al-Azzawi Excerpt from the novel Cell Block 5\u003cbr\u003eGamal el-Ghitani Excerpt from the novel Pyramid Texts\u003cbr\u003eTaleb Alrefai Excerpt from the novel Samar’s Words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON LEBANESE POETRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating Shi’r magazine – Issue No 1,1957\u003cbr\u003eBassam Hajjar\u003cbr\u003eYehia Jaber\u003cbr\u003eJawdat Fakhreddine\u003cbr\u003eJoumana Haddad\u003cbr\u003eSalah Stétié\u003cbr\u003eYoussef Bazzi\u003cbr\u003eSabah Zwein\u003cbr\u003eCharles Chahwan\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne Alwayan\u003cbr\u003eFidel Sbeity\u003cbr\u003eMohammed A S al-Din\u003cbr\u003eZeinab Assaf\u003cbr\u003eGhassan Jawad\u003cbr\u003eBilal Khubbayz\u003cbr\u003eEskander Habache\u003cbr\u003eCharbel Dagher\u003cbr\u003eAkl Awit\u003cbr\u003eInaya Jaber\u003cbr\u003eHenry Zoghaib\u003cbr\u003eWadih Sa’adeh\u003cbr\u003eEtel Adnan\u003cbr\u003eJad El Hage\u003cbr\u003eHassan al-Zein\u003cbr\u003eNazem el-Sayed\u003cbr\u003eVénus Khoury-Ghata\u003cbr\u003eAbdo Wazen\u003cbr\u003eAmal Nawwar\u003cbr\u003eHassan Abdallah\u003cbr\u003eChawki Bazih\u003cbr\u003ePaul Chaoul\u003cbr\u003eAbbas Beydoun\u003cbr\u003eOunsi El Hage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003eIssa Makhlouf – Journey around the Pyramids\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH A PUBLISHER\u003cbr\u003eHesham Bahari, publisher of Alhambra Förlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eZuzana Kratka reviews De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage\u003cbr\u003eJudith Kazantzis reviews Saraya, The Ogre’s Daughter by Emile Habiby\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush reviews Remember me to Lebanon by Evelyn Shakir\u003cbr\u003eand Dreams of Water by Nada Awar Jarrar\u003cbr\u003eSaadi Youssef reviews Stories from Ancient Iraq retold by Fran Hazelton\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark reviews Modern Arabic Literature by Paul Starkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOKS IN BRIEF\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040835252,"sku":"1923714615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_df1da92a-399f-4263-aded-4876abd421e8.jpeg?v=1752237883"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-22","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 22","description":"\u003cem\u003eBanipal\u003c\/em\u003e, No 22, presents an intriguing selection of works from around the Arab world – from Lebanon, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Syria, Morocco, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia. The cover artist is Kurdish Iraqi painter Sadradeen, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artist: Sadradeen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAli Mosbah A short story Wind\u003cbr\u003eAbbas Beydhoun Six Poems\u003cbr\u003eNajwa Barakat Excerpt from A Busload of Good People\u003cbr\u003eHassan al-Shami reviews A Busload of Good People\u003cbr\u003eTayeb Salih A short story If She Comes\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim Nasrallah Eight Poems\u003cbr\u003eSalah Hasan A Poem An Old Song about the Plains\u003cbr\u003eMansoura Ezeldin A short story Butrus: A Distant Hazy Face\u003cbr\u003eAli al-Domaini Excerpt from the novel The Grey Cloud\u003cbr\u003eNazih Abu Afash Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eHussain al-Mozany A short story The Last Wish\u003cbr\u003eInaya Jaber Thirteen Poems\u003cbr\u003eIssa J Boullata A short story A Retired Gentleman\u003cbr\u003eRabia Raihane A short story A Red Spot\u003cbr\u003eFady Joudah A Poem Along Came a Spider\u003cbr\u003eLisa Suhair Majaj Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eBaha Edinne Taoud Excerpt from the novel Beyond the Self\u003cbr\u003eRasha Omran A Poem When Longing Tormented Me\u003cbr\u003eMohamed Choukri A short story Men Have All the Luck\u003cbr\u003eAziz Chouaki An Excerpt from The Star of Algiers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR\u003cbr\u003eBirgitta Wallin of Karavan magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIBUTE\u003cbr\u003eSamir Naqqash (1938–2004)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITERARY INFLUENCES\u003cbr\u003eRafik Schami What I learnt from Sheherazade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark Re-issue of Gamal el-Ghitani’s Zayni Barakat\u003cbr\u003eSophie Richter-Devroe Die Reise nach Tell al-Lahm by Najm Wali\u003cbr\u003e[The Journey to Tell al-Lahm]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFadhil al-Azzawi An Iraqi in Paris by Samuel Shimon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040838992,"sku":"1426214615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_5bf42f9e-2efb-4978-bcbf-b0578b15fc4e.jpeg?v=1752237879"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/inaya-jaber\/jad-el-hage.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}