Banipal
Categories | Literary magazine |
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Frequency | 3 per year |
Founder | Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon |
Year founded | 1998 |
Company | Banipal |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London |
Language | English |
Website | www |
ISSN | 1461-5363 |
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.[1] 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 has said:
What Banipal has achieved for Arab literature and culture in its 21 issues is more important than all the work of all the Arab ministries of culture, which have almost completely failed to do anything for Arab culture. Banipal has enabled the English reader not only to read the works of Arab writers, but also to discover the real craft of modern Arab literature. We have only one real minister for Arab culture: Margaret Obank.[2]
Contemporary authors featured in Banipal[]
- Abbas Beydhoun
- Abdel Aziz al-Maqalih
- Abdellatif Laâbi
- Abdelrahman Munif
- Abdelwahab Meddeb
- Abdullah Laroui
- Abdu Khal
- Abdul Wahab al-Bayati
- Adunis
- Ahmad Ali El Zein
- Ahmad Zein
- Ahmed Fagih
- Ahmed Bouzfour
- Ala Hlehel
- Alawiyya Subh
- Albert Cossery
- Ali al-Muqri
- Ali Mohammed Zayd
- Amjad Nasser
- Anton Shammas
- Aziz Chouaki
- Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
- Bassam Frangieh
- Bensalim Himmich
- Denys Johnson-Davies
- Driss Chraïbi
- Edward al-Kharrat
- Edward Said
- Elias Khoury
- Etel Adnan
- Ezzat el-Kamhawi
- Fadhil al-Azzawi
- Fady Joudeh
- Ferial Ghazoul
- Fuad al-Takarli
- Gamal el-Ghitani
- Ghalib Halasa
- Ghassan Zaqtan
- Ghazi Algosaibi
- Habib Abdulrab Sarori
- Habib Selmi
- Habib Tengour
- Halim Barakat
- Hanan al-Shaykh
- Hassan Abdulrazzak
- Hassan Daoud
- Hassouna Mosbahi
- Hoda Barakat
- Huda Ablan
- Huzama Habayeb
- Ibrahim Nasrallah
- Ibtisam Abdallah
- Inaya Jaber
- Ines Abassi
- Issa J Boullata
- Jamal Mahjoub
- Kamal Ruhayyim
- Khaled Mattawa
- Khalid Albudoor
- Lamia Makaddam
- Lisa Suhair Majaj
- Luay Hamza Abbas
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Mahmoud Shukair
- Mai Ghoussoub
- Miled Faiza
- Miral al-Tahawy
- Mohamed al-Bisatie
- Mohamed Choukri
- Mohamed Salah al-Azab
- Mohammad al-Maghut
- Mohammad al-Qaood
- Mohammed Al-Harthi
- Mohammed Bennis
- Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
- Mohammed Mustagab
- Mohammed Zefzaf
- Mohja Kahf
- Nabila al-Zubair
- Nadia Alkowkobani
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Najwa Barakat
- Nazik al-Malaika
- Nizar Qabbani
- Nouri al-Jarrah
- Nujoom Al-Ghanem
- Qassim Haddad
- Rabee Jaber
- Rachid al-Daif
- Rachida Lamrabet
- Rafik Schami
- Ramsey Nasr
- Rasha Omran
- Sa'adallah Wannus
- Saadi Youssef
- Saif al-Rahbi
- Salim Barakat
- Samar Yazbek
- Samir Naqqash
- Saniya Salih
- Sargon Boulus
- Shawqi Shafiq
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Tayeb Salih
- Turki al-Hamad
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata
- Wacini Laradg
- Wajdi al-Ahdal
- Wilfred Thesiger
- Yasser Abdel Hafez
- Youssef Rakha
- Zakariyya Tamer
References[]
- ^ Banipal magazine profile
- ^ Banipal - What They Say Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
- Magazines published in London
- Magazines established in 1998
- Triannual magazines published in the United Kingdom
- Literary translation magazines