Banipal 38 – Arab American AuthorsBanipal 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

It is also a novel about youth and old age

Dmitry Bobyshev

Editor Phil Clark

The poems have a vivid imagistic clarity…deliciously wicked…bittersweet sadness…" - Katie Campbell CITY LIMITS

for their beauty and tenderness

It is spoken by the hopeless

al-Maghut was almost a household name in the Arab world

fazil Iskander

Nasser al-Dhaheri – 'The Stone of Desire'

but rejects the label of exile in favour of resident of the world

and his first since the publication of Othello in the Pyramid of Dreams in 1996

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