{"title":"Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih","description":null,"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. He died just three weeks after his novel \u003cem\u003eBeit ala Nahr Dijla [House on the Tigris]\u003c\/em\u003e, written in 1992, was published.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 25\u003c\/strong\u003e presents works by two prominent Libyan authors – the novelist \u003cstrong\u003eIbrahim al-Koni\u003c\/strong\u003e with an excerpt from the intriguing and challenging desert narrative \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Veils of Seth\u003c\/em\u003e, while poet and translator \u003cstrong\u003eKhaled Mattawa\u003c\/strong\u003e writes about the books and authors that have had an influential impact on his life in the regular column LITERARY INFUENCES, intriguing us with Russell Banks, Thomas Hardy and writing in an adopted language.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe major feature of the issue, 100 pages in length, is on the New Writing in Egypt, and features 19 young fiction writers and poets. Introducing the feature, Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih describes how the young generation of authors  \u003cem\u003e“capture the dispersed, the elusive and the contingent that constitute the every day”\u003c\/em\u003e. . . thereby \u003cem\u003e“debunking the heroic self”\u003c\/em\u003e of previous generations. The angry young cosmopolitan men and women in today’s Egypt are impatient for change and for recognition of the stamp of individuality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a freshness and matter-of-fact vitality in the air from all the authors, who include Hamdy Abowgliel with an excerpt from his novel \u003cem\u003eThieves in Retirement\u003c\/em\u003e, the poet Iman Mersal who lives in Canada, dentist-cum-novelist Alaa al-Aswany  (who authored the best-selling \u003cem\u003eThe Yacoubian Building\u003c\/em\u003e), Mansoura Ez-Eldin (one of four young Arab authors on the Banipal Live UK tour this August), prize-winning young author Haytham al-Wardany, and Ahmed Alaidy with his novel \u003cem\u003eBeing Abbas el Abd\u003c\/em\u003e, plus works by other young poets and writers, and a TRAVELLING TALE from writer and translator Waiel Ashry in the USA \u003cem\u003eGoing to Williamsburg\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the feature is a tribute translation of the late Mohammed Mustagab’s true account and fictional story of meeting a hired killer, introduced by Banipal’s consulting editor Mona Zaki.  Jane Spender, Editor of PEN International, in the regular feature INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR, talks about the magazine and how PEN is working for greater connections with the Arab world.   \t \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artist: Mai Refky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003eTribute to Mohammad al-Maghut (1934-2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim al-Koni \"The Visitor\"\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the novel Al-Bahth An al-Makan al-Da’i\u003cbr\u003e[The Seven Veils of Seth]\u003cbr\u003eHartmut Fähndrich on al-Koni The Desert – our Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITERARY INFLUENCES\u003cbr\u003eKhaled Mattawa The Relation of my Influences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEATURE ON NEW WRITING IN EGYPT\u003cbr\u003eIntroduced by Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih Debunking the Heroic Self\u003cbr\u003eHamdy Abowgliel Excerpts from Thieves in Retirement\u003cbr\u003eIman Mersal Poems\u003cbr\u003eAlaa al-Aswany Two short stories\u003cbr\u003eMansoura Ez-Eldin Excerpt from Maryam’s Maze\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim Farghali A short story\u003cbr\u003eIndependent Egyptian publisher wins International Award\u003cbr\u003eFatima Naoot Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eMontasser El-Qaffash Excerpt from the novel To See Now\u003cbr\u003eZahra Yusri A Poem It’s Night\u003cbr\u003eNagat Ali Two Poems\u003cbr\u003eAhmed Alaidy Excerpt from Being Abbas el Abd\u003cbr\u003eEmad Abu Saleh Two poems\u003cbr\u003eHaytham al-Wardany Two short stories\u003cbr\u003eRana al-Tonsi Poems from A Rose for the Last Days\u003cbr\u003eSafaa Ennagar A short story Amoeba\u003cbr\u003eTamer Fathy Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eAshraf Abdelshafy Two short stories\u003cbr\u003eEmad Fouad A Poem\u003cbr\u003eYasser Abd el-Hafez Excerpt from On the Occasion of Life\u003cbr\u003eSawiris Fiction Prizes for Egyptian Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRAVELLING TALE\u003cbr\u003eWaiel Ashry Going to Williamsburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohammed Mustagab (d. 2005)\u003cbr\u003eA story The Hired Killer and a true account Ola the Hit Man\u003cbr\u003ewith introduction by Mona Zaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR\u003cbr\u003eJane Spender, PEN International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark Memories in Translation by Denys Johnson-Davies\u003cbr\u003eSophie Richter-Devroe Die Reise des Granadiniers by Rabee Jaber\u003cbr\u003eTarek al-Ariss Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury\u003cbr\u003eStephen Watts Here and There: a Selection of Poems by Basim Furat\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki I Loved You for your Voice by Sélim Nassib\u003cbr\u003eChawki Bazih Cabaret Su’ad by Mohammed Suwaid\u003cbr\u003eLulu Norman Le Diamantaire by Yasmine Khlat\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank Yasser Arafat Looked at Me and Smiled by Yussef Bazzi ","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040826948,"sku":"1788614615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_392ff446-20f1-403c-9f12-4a67be5949ac.jpeg?v=1752237898"},{"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. A sheaf of novels in translation is reviewed, including \u003ci\u003eThe Year of the Revolutionary Bread-Making Machine\u003c\/i\u003e by Hassan Daoud, \u003ci\u003eWild Mulberries\u003c\/i\u003e by Iman Humaydan Younes, \u003ci\u003eNuit de l’étranger\u003c\/i\u003e by Habib Selmi, \u003ci\u003eHakawati\u003c\/i\u003e by Rabih Almeddine, \u003ci\u003eThe Collar and the Bracelet\u003c\/i\u003e by Yahya Taher Abdullah, \u003ci\u003eGold Dust\u003c\/i\u003e by Ibrahim al-Koni, and \u003ci\u003eThe Journals of Sarab Affan\u003c\/i\u003e by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Road from Damascus\u003c\/i\u003e by Robin Yassin-Kassab, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Iraqi Fiction, An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e by Shakir Mustafa, and Denys Johnson Davies reviews David Tresilian’s \u003ci\u003eA Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040827164,"sku":"1981014615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_6e26b916-b87c-4fd1-9ac1-f38fdca2278c.jpeg?v=1752237897"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/marie-therese-abdel-messih\/judith-kazantzis.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}