Banipal 60 – Alaa al-Deeb, A writer apart Charlotte Eichler James Kirkup introduces Mostafa Nissabouri

James Kirkup introduces Mostafa Nissabouri A Metric of the Desert

Her first collection of short stories is The Hour Glass

Mary Woodward writes of the influence William Cowper has had on her

people who are smart and musical and angry

Banipal 60 – Alaa al-Deeb, A writer apart Charlotte Eichler James Kirkup introduces Mostafa NissabouriBanipal completes its 20th year of publishing with a major feature on the influential Egyptian author Alaa al Deeb, with translations from a number of his pivotal works, and articles by six fellow Egyptians from the next generations of writers. The issue is opened, however, with chapters from Kitsch 2011, a novel by the Tunisian journalist Safi Said, who calls it himself a mongrel text par excellence; with poems from Widad Nabi from Syria and Lamia