Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous Graham Jones

Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous Graham JonesBanipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous commemorates two great Arab authors and introduces new literature in translation, plus reviews and photo report. We say Farewell to the inimitable Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, the last communist, who passed away on 13 June. In a special feature we salute the prolific Egyptian writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (19191990), whose stories and novels were adapted into dozens of films, but hardly translated into English. With

In contrast

which he adapted from his own published short story

At the volume’s center

The bed of poverty

a flurry of voyages were made into the North Atlantic in search of fish

Mira Mattar

mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night

as she encapsulates the zeitgeist of her generation

intolerance

Hassan Daoud – Excerpt from the novel Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine

but one which draws attention to the significance of Greaves’ practice in bringing together elements from visual resources that range across traditional African and Amerindian art and contemporary European surrealism

How other societies are perceived has long been a preoccupation of Stewart Brown’s own poetry and critical writing