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Banipal Shoomoon
''Banipal'' is an independent literary magazine dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Arab literature through translations in English. It was founded in London in 1998 by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon. The magazine is published three times a year. Since its inception, it has published works and interviews of numerous Arab authors and poets, many of them translated for the first time into English. It is also co-sponsor of the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. As of December 2020, 69 issues of ''Banipal'' were published. Each issue usually focuses on a specific theme, recent issues focusing on Libyan fiction, Arab American authors, Iraqi authors, Literature in Yemen Today, Writing in Dutch, etc. The magazine has been praised both by non-Arab and Arab commentators - Gamal el-Ghitani, James Kirkup, Anton Shammas among others - for its role in diffusing Arab literature to a wider audience. The Iraqi poet, novelist and translator Fadhil Al Azzawi h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Obank
Margaret Obank is a British publisher, noted for her contribution to the dissemination of contemporary Arabic literature in English translation. Life Obank was born in Leeds. She studied philosophy and literature at Leeds University and linguistics at Birkbeck College. She worked in teaching and in printing and publishing for many years. Along with her husband, the Iraqi author Samuel Shimon, Obank was the driving force behind the creation of ''Banipal'' magazine, a journal exclusively devoted to publishing English translations of modern Arabic literature. The first issue of ''Banipal'' was published in February 1998, and as of 2011, there have been 42 issues. Obank has also established: * the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature (which administers the Banipal Prize for literary translation), * the Banipal-Arab British Centre Library of Modern Arab Literature, and * Banipal Books. Obank is a trustee of the Arabic Booker Prize, and she is also involved with CASAW The Centre f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb ( aeb, عبد الوهاب المدب; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. Biography and career Meddeb was born in Tunis, French Tunisia, in 1946, into a learned and patrician milieu. His family's origins stretch from Tripoli and Yemen on his mother's side, to Spain and Morocco on his father's side. Raised in a traditionally observant Maghrebi Muslim family, Meddeb began learning the Qur'an at the age of four from his father, Sheik Mustapha Meddeb, a scholar of Islamic law at the Zitouna, the great mosque and university of Tunis. At the age of six he began his bilingual education at the Franco-Arabic school that was part of the famous Collège Sadiki. Thus began an intellectual trajectory nourished, in adolescence, by the classics of both Arabic and French and European literatures. In 1967, Meddeb moved to Paris to continue his university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Cossery
Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society. Albert Cossery was well known in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he lived in the same hotel, Hotel La Louisiane, since 1945. Life Albert Cossery (Arabic: البرت قصيري) was born in Cairo to a Greek Orthodox Christian family of Syrian descent, specifically from al-Qusayr. His parents were wealthy small-property owners that originally owned land in Damietta. In a conversation with Lebanese writer Abdallah Naaman in 1998, Cossery said, "We are the "Shawams" (Levantines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alawiyya Subh
Alawiya Sobh (Arabic: علوية صبح) (born 1955) is a Lebanese writer and author. Biography Born in Beirut, Sobh studied English & Arabic Literature at the Lebanese University. Upon graduation in 1978, she pursued a career in teaching. She also began publishing articles and short stories, at first in ''An-Nida'' newspaper and then in ''An-Nahar''. After a spell as cultural editor, she became editor-in-chief of ''Al-Hasnaa'', a popular Arabic women's magazine, in 1986. In the early 1990s, she became editor-in-chief of women's magazine ''Snob Al-Hasnaa’''. In 2009, Sobh served on the judging panel of the Beirut39 competition. Sobh is now dedicating her time only to writing. Works Short Stories * ''Slumber of Days'' (1986) Novels (All novels were published originally at Dar Al Adab in their native Arabic language) * 2002 - ''Maryam Al-Hakaya'' (''Maryam: Keeper of the Stories'') * 2006 - ''Dunya'' (''Life'') * 2009 - ''Ismuhu Al-Gharam'' (''It's Called Passion'') * 2020 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ala Hlehel
Ala Hlehel (born 1974) is a Palestinian writer. He was born in Jesh, Galilee. He studied at the University of Haifa, and went on to work in both print and broadcast media in Haifa. Trained as a scriptwriter in Tel Aviv, he has written stage plays and scripts for both film and television. He has presented his work at prestigious theatres such as the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Schaubuhne Theatre in Berlin. Hlehel has also published novels and short stories in the humorously realistic tradition of Palestinian literature. His stories have appeared in venues such as ''Banipal'' and ''World Literature Today''. His novels include ''Au revoir Acre'' and the award-winning ''Al-Sirk''. He lives in Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imp ... in northern Israel. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Rashid Thani
Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the verb (''ḥameda'', "to thank or to praise"), non-past participle (). Lexicology As an Arabic name, it has its origins in a Quranic prophecy attributed to Jesus in the Quran which most Islamic scholars concede is about Muhammad. It also shares the same roots as Mahmud, Muhammad and Hamed. In its transliteration, the name has one of the highest number of spelling variations in the world. Though Islamic scholars attribute the name Ahmed to Muhammed, the verse itself is about a Messenger named Ahmed, whilst Muhammed was a Messenger-Prophet. Some Islamic traditions view the name Ahmad as another given name of Muhammad at birth by his mother, considered by Muslims to be the more esoteric name of Muhammad and central to understanding his n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Bouzfour
Ahmed Bouzfour ( ar, أحمد بوزفور) (born 1940s, in Taza) is a Moroccan novelist. Biography Born in the early 1940s near to Taza, Bouzfour received his primary education and learned the Qur'an in a Quranic school. He then studied at the University of Al Qaraouiyine ( ar, القرويين) in Fès, where he completed his high school studies and obtained a baccalauréat in 1966. After that, he was arrested and incarcerated during three months for his political activism. Bouzfour continued his studies in the " Faculty of Humanities and Human Science" in Mohammed V University, in Rabat, where he obtained a licence (Academic degree) of Arabic literature, then, in 1972, a master in modern Moroccan literature. His first novella, ''Yas'alounaka âni al-qatl'' (يسألونك عن القتل) was published in 1971 in Al-Alam (العلم), a Moroccan newspaper belonging to the Istiqlal Party. Works * ''Ta'abbaṭa shiâran'' (تأبط شعرا) * Three collections of novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Fagih
Ahmed Ibrahim al-Fagih (Arabic: أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه ''’áħmad 'Ibrāhīm al-faqīh'') (December 28, 1942 – April 30, 2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and diplomat. He began writing short stories at an early age publishing them in Libyan newspapers and magazines. He gained recognition in 1965 when his first collection of short stories ''There Is No Water in the Sea'' (Arabic: البحر لا ماء فيه) won him the highest award sponsored by the Royal Commission of Fine Arts in Libya. Fagih wrote many more books in different genres, including short stories, novels, plays, essays, among them ''Gazelles'' (play), ''Evening Visitor'' (play), ''Gardens of the Night Trilogy'' (novels), ''The Valley of Ashes'' (novel), and his 12-volume epic novel ''Maps of the Soul'', which had its first three volumes translated into English and published by DARF Publishers in UK in 2014. Fagih held several diplomatic posts representing Libya, in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Zein
Ahmad Zein (born 1966) is a critically-acclaimed Yemeni writer and journalist, currently living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He works for the ''Al-Hayat'' newspaper. He is the author of two novels and two short story collections. The author's work has been published in Banipal magazine. His novel ''Fruit for the Crows'' was longlisted for the 2021 Arabic Booker Prize The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) ( ar, الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية) is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic .... Publications * ''Correction'' (2004) * ''American Coffee'' (2007) * ''War Under the Skin'' (2010) * ''Steamer Point'' (2015) His work has been translated into English, French, and Russian. References 1968 births Living people Yemeni writers Yemeni novelists Yemeni journalists Yemeni expatriates in Saudi Arabia {{Yemen-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Ali El Zein
Ahmad Ali El Zein (born 1956) is a Lebanese novelist, documentary film maker and television journalist. He is best known for his trilogy of novels, ''The Edge of Oblivion'' (2007), ''Suhbat al-Tayer'' (2010) and ''Barid al-Ghouroub'' (2014). He lives between Europe and the Middle East, where he shoots ''Rawafed'', a series of documentaries on Arab intellectuals and artists broadcast on Al Arabiya News Channel Biography Ahmad Ali El Zein was born in March 1956 in the village of Akkar al-Atika, north Lebanon, to Ali El-Zein and Fatima al-Mohamad. He grew up in a rural and pastoral environment in the Lebanese northern mountains of Akkar amid thick woods. El Zein studied music and theatre at the Lebanese University, Beirut. He started as a journalist in 1978 and wrote cultural essays, articles and editorials for ''al-Nida'' newspaper, ''Annahar'', ''Assafir'', ''al-Hayat'' and ''Zahrat al-Khalij''. In 1986, he produced, wrote and presented dozens of comedies and political shows fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adunis
Ali Ahmad Said Esber (, North Levantine: ; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis ( ar, أدونيس ), is a Syrian people, Syrian poet, essayist and translator. He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world. Adonis's publications include twenty volumes of poetry and thirteen of criticism. His dozen books of translation to Arabic include the poetry of Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy, and the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (2002). His multi-volume anthology of Arabic poetry ("Dīwān ash-shi'r al-'arabī"), covering almost two millennia of verse, has been in print since its publication in 1964. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Adonis has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world. Biography Early life and education Born to a modest Alawites, Alawite farming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (December 19, 1926 – August 3, 1999) was an Iraqi Arab poet. He was a pioneer in his field and defied conventional forms of poetry that had been common for centuries. Biography He was born in Baghdad, near the shrine of the 12th century Sufi Abdel Qadir al-Jilani. Abd al-Wahhab's last name should not be spelled as "Al-Bayyati" (double yy), in Arabic or when being transliterated for another language, as the meaning would change and become one of "the boarder" or "the pupil of a boarding school." This is a common mistake made with the last name Al-Bayati, even in Arabic, as it is assumed to be a name whose root (ba ya ta / ب ي ت) has Arabic origins, and therefore is expected to follow the Arabic faʿʿaal / فعَّال noun type, used to denote intensity, repetition or a profession. The name of Al-Bayati denotes one who comes from the Bayat tribe (قبيلة بيات), one of the largest Turkmen tribes in Iraq, entering the area with the Oghuz Turk mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
