{"title":"Zahra Yusri","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"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/zahra-yusri\/tamer-fathy.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}