Banipal 54 - Echoes Ron SouthertonBanipal 54 ECHOES is a grand panoply of literature in which history, memory and real life reverberate against each other and sing to each other new songs by authors from Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and Libya. A feature on leading Iraqi playwright and director Jawad al Assadi includes his play Baghdadi Bathhouse, and the Guest Literature section from the Berlin Festival on The Future of Cities features Roddy Doyle, Rawi Hage,
people who walk by the cliffs
That Was the Week That Was and other TV and radio programmes
DuMars looks for God in the stories of the Bible’s women
• Photos and report from the Berlin international literature festival and its magnificent Focus Arab World in which more than 30 Arab authors participated
tributes and discussion from J M Le Clézio
supplemented by a chapter of biography
His poems appear in Enitharmon’s Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry anthology (2007)
forthcoming in English translation in the USA and the UK
his pride in her learning and independent spirit sharpened by the death of his elder son and his estrangement from the younger who has opted to pursue a hedonistic western lifestyle in the USA
Gamal el-Ghitani Excerpt from the novel Pyramid Texts
was published by Damocle Edizioni
Lutfiya Dulaimi
