Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Sherry Ashworth

Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Sherry AshworthBanipal 64 A Rebel named Hanan al Shaykh features the Lebanese, now London based author whose spirit of rebellion has stayed with her, enriching the Arab literary scene since her first works as a teenager in Beirut. The issue opens with poems by the late Lebanese poet Bassam Hajjar, now read widely by young Arab poets who find him pioneering and inspirational. A second poet is Iraqi Adnan Mohsen with poems of the ordinary, the familiar and the

Now ticks come back to the horses

quite literally

They want to recreate a sense of home

many of these poems are often inspired by artists from Wales

Linking all is a play with colour

Some poems draw on Jewish writings

He has written studies of several Irish writers

many book reviews and a photo report of Banipal's latest outreach events in Japan

Natural Bridge

a penniless monk

one of Romania’s greatest writers and intellectuals

Easter day