{"title":"Tahar Ben Jelloun","description":null,"products":[{"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"},{"product_id":"banipal-magazine-issue-8","title":"Banipal Magazine - Issue 8","description":"22-page feature on Moroccan novelist, poet and essayist Tahar Ben Jelloun. Feature on works by Ten Iraqi Poets.  PLUS works by 6 other poets and 10 fiction-writers including appreciations. Article by Mahmoud Darwish on Translating Poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITORIAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeature on TAHAR BEN JELLOUN\u003cbr\u003epoet, novelist and essayist\u003cbr\u003ewith drawings by Azzawi\u003cbr\u003eJ M G Le Clézio: Tahar the wise\u003cbr\u003eStefan Weidner: Homage to the Unknown Dead\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts from the poems The Raising of the Ashes and Ephemeral Childhood\u003cbr\u003eMaati Kabbal: The Polyphonies of Ben Jelloun\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirkup: Ben Jelloun’s Italian journeys\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the novel Labyrinthe des sentiments\u003cbr\u003ewith illustrations of Ernest Pignon-Ernest\u003cbr\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun talks to Pierrre Maury\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from poem Le Discours du Chameau\u003cbr\u003ewith an appreciation by translator Margaret Furniss\u003cbr\u003eMai Ghoussoub reviews Harrouda\u003cbr\u003eMona Zaki reviews Corruption\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Obank reviews Ben Jelloun’s trilogy The Sand Child,\u003cbr\u003eThe Sacred Night and The Wrong Night\u003cbr\u003eand French Hospitality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Darwish: On translating poetry The Place of the Universal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaidar Haidar: Excerpt from the novel The Desolate Time\u003cbr\u003eBassam K. Frangieh: Essay Haidar Haidar – novelist of social change\u003cbr\u003eEtel Adnan: Three poems\u003cbr\u003eAbdallah Zreka: Excerpts from “Black candle drops”\u003cbr\u003eAhmed Barakat: Three poems\u003cbr\u003eSabri Moussa: Three short stories\u003cbr\u003eRafik Schami: Three short stories\u003cbr\u003eUlla Kasten: Rafik Schami – Damascene storyteller\u003cbr\u003eYahya al-Qaissi: Short story Shattered desires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTEN IRAQI POETS\u003cbr\u003eSelected poems of:\u003cbr\u003eSalah Niazi\u003cbr\u003eSargon Boulus\u003cbr\u003eSadiq al-Sayegh\u003cbr\u003eA K EL Janabi\u003cbr\u003eHashim Shafiq\u003cbr\u003eAmal AL-Jabouri\u003cbr\u003eMuniam Alfaker\u003cbr\u003eAdnan Mohsen\u003cbr\u003eFadhil Sultani\u003cbr\u003eDalia Riadh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIssa J. Boullata: Short story Bar-room confessions\u003cbr\u003eSaleh al-Azzaz: Short story Chirping\u003cbr\u003eMay Tilmissany: Excerpt from the novel Dunyazad\u003cbr\u003eRoger Allen: Essay Possibilities of meaning and delicious ambiguities\u003cbr\u003eMuhsin al-Ramly: Short story Boredom\u003cbr\u003eFaraj Bou al-Isha: Six poems\u003cbr\u003eSabah Zwein: Selected poems\u003cbr\u003eLeila Marouane: Excerpt from the novel The Abductor\u003cbr\u003eHoda Ablan: Twelve poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003eSamir el-Youssef: Out of Place by Edward Said\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: The Honey by Zeina B. Ghandour\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Tarbush: Tony Hanania’s islands of desire\u003cbr\u003ePeter Clark: Eros Island by Tony Hanania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banipal Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040830992,"sku":"1795414615363","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_60ad4c71-510a-4a46-9603-fdc002b39637.jpeg?v=1752237893"},{"product_id":"on-terrorism","title":"On Terrorism","description":"     \u003ci\u003eOn Terrorism: Conversations With My Daughter \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003eTahar Ben Jelloun\u003c\/b\u003e?s impassioned, succinct explanation of the seductions and dangers of terrorism in the modern world. It takes the form of a dialogue between the author and his teenage daughter. Using her ill-defined fears as the starting point, this challenging book begins with a discussion of what it means to be civilised and leads the reader through an evaluation and analysis of the place of Islam in the modern world and its relationship to Islamist terrorism. Exploring all forms of terrorism in both a historical and contemporary context, the book addresses complex and pressing questions in an everyday, accessible language. Because Ben Jelloun understands that terrorist acts come from the perpetrators? deepsense of inadequacy, his arguments are all the more powerful. He places a high value on the importance of secular values, with which he believes Islam is compatible. This is a powerful, timely plea for tolerance and understanding.     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