Banipal Magazine - Issue 26 Camilo Gomez-Rivas

Banipal Magazine - Issue 26 Camilo Gomez-RivasAugust starts with a new issue of Banipal, designed especially for Summer reading, and including many thought provoking fiction from Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq and Egypt. Rasheed el Anany pays tribute to the late Alfred Farag (1929 2005), the outstanding and distinguished playwright who dominated Egyptian theatre in the second half of the 20th century, while Saadi Youssef pays tribute to his fellow countryman the novelist Mahdi Issa al Saqr (1930

[The Seven Veils of Seth]

three poems

and The House on Arnus Square by Samar Attar

This book was first published in 1985 under the title Leslie Thompson – An Autobiography

and further everyday from the past

Winner of Belgium’s 2004 Golden Owl Prize

Translation has often been a sort of smuggling

As this varied anthology proves there is much more to Belgium than Hercule Poirot

Mustafa Zikri – Four Tales

with more than 20 novels to her name

I stopped showing my sister slide-shows because I was too busy reading

Intersections – Gender