Banipal Magazine - Issue 2 William M Hutchins

Banipal Magazine - Issue 2 William M HutchinsInterviews with poet Adonis and poet painter Etel Adnan. Works by Saadi Youssef and 8 other poets, 9 fiction writers, a tribute to the late Nizar Qabbani, reports on the Quartet and Garnet publishing houses, and on Iraqi exile writing. Editorial Is there going to be a third issue? Saadi Youssef: Six poems FICTION Ibrahim Aslan Samira Azzam Samir El Youssef Latifa Baqa Yousif Qaid Luay Abdelilah Paula Haydar INTERVIEW with Adonis There are many Easts

Translated by George Szirtes

Following link after link

cruelty and arguments about war

But all the horses were half-dead

Fadhil al-Azzawi – Chapters from The Dead City

Sophie Richter-Devroe Die Reise des Granadiniers by Rabee Jaber

Mohammad Ali Farhat

For Hugh Underhill

who knows where

Michael Hamburger

empathy and variety challenge the conventions of established drama

so that we see