{"product_id":"9781913043070-banipal-68-short-stories","title":"Banipal 68 Short Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntroducing 21 diverse, engaging stories from prizewinner Sheikha Helawy, finalists Sofiene Rajab, Sherif Saleh, Mahmoud Al-Rahbi , and 3 other authors – Muhammad Khudayyir, Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa and Mohammed Al-Sharekh.  Plus novelists Mohammed Hasan Alwan, Abeer Esber, Bothayna Al-Essa, Mohamed Berrada and poets Moncef Ouhaibi and Abd Wazen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovid-19 is still with us, spreading its deathly virus, killing thousands, keeping us in our homes, making us keep our distance wherever we go, wearing masks whenever we might get within a metre or so of another person, and creating virtual, digital events. Over the months it has changed the world, and till now it’s hard to see an end to it. All our lives are being transformed by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 8 April, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced its 2020 winners – \u003cem\u003eBanipal Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e won the Publishing and Technology award. What a huge honour and accolade for this 23-year-old literary magazine. It is a tremendous boost to our very necessary translation project. We were pleased, also, to hear a mention of our new project of a second magazine – \u003cem\u003eRevista Banipal\u003c\/em\u003e for modern Arab literature in Spanish translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBanipal 68 – Short Stories introduces 21 diverse, engaging and thoughtful stories, mostly for the first time in English. First, from the award ceremony of the Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story, there is winner Sheikha Helawy and finalists Sofiene Rajab, Sherif Saleh and Mahmoud Al-Rahbi, and then three further great short story writers, Muhammad Khudayyir , Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa and Mohammed Al-Sharekh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlus chapters from two novels – \u003cem\u003eFree Fall\u003c\/em\u003e by Abeer Esber and \u003cem\u003eA Small Death\u003c\/em\u003e by Mohammed Hasan Alwan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlus works by two major poets – Moncef Ouhaibi, winner of the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature, and Abdo Wazen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlus interview with Mohamed Berrada and essay by Bothayna al-Essa on her writings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd letters from Ghassan Kanafani to Denys Johnson-Davies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA HUGE THANKS to all our contributors who have continued working from home under coronavirus restrictions, and to our socially-distancing printer and distributor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449973879158,"sku":"9781913043070","price":10.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28183642.jpg?v=1760446979","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781913043070-banipal-68-short-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}