Banipal 38 – Arab American Authors Richard McKane

Banipal 38 – Arab American Authors Richard McKaneBanipal 38 presents over 150 pages of works of poetry, fiction and memoir by 29 writers from the USA and Canada of Arab origin. Their literature is already a subject for university study and although we were wary about using such a label of hyphenated identification, the increasingly significant contribution to American and world literature being made by the growing numbers of Arab American authors meant it was high time to focus on their work. In

a succinct and well-written survey

When towards the age of thirty

His best recordings are classics

she edited Salmon: A Journey in Poetry

'Poets I Go Back To' — Simon Currie and Chris Jones

Lebanese author Ahmad Ali El-Zein

John Du Val on translating fabliaux

a short story translated by Thomas Aplin

She also wrote two autobiographical works Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness in which she wrote movingly and with dignity about the onset of epilepsy and her search for God

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At present he works for the Yemeni Community Association in Sheffield

Antun and Dagmar’s stories come together in 1998