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Margaret Obank reads a poem by Amjad Nasser |
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For free culture & tolerance
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Zuzana Kratka reviews
In Their Father's Country
This fascinating account of family tales and love affairs set in Cairo, is Anne-Marie Drosso's first novel. Like her book of short stories Cairo Stories (Telegram, 2007) Anne-Marie Drosso sets the narrative in the cosmopolitan milieu o
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Alfred Corn reviews
The Baghdad Blues by Sinan Antoon
In Baghdad Blues Antoon evokes devastation and death, but also insists on an alternative; and in so doing he gives us a persuasive, unmilitary indictment of the armed conflicts that, already longer than World War II, have cost th
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BANIPAL 37
IRAQI AUTHORS
Banipal’s first issue of 2010 celebrates authors from Iraq with over half its 224 pages devoted to fiction and poetry by 21 writers from different generations, some spread across the world, but many writing from within the country
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The merit of Bennis's works including his book on modern Arabic poetry and on the place of "Wine" within Arabic poetry and the tradition of Andalusian poetry. The translator also compared that anthology to the works of other poets who celebra
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