Banipal 74: Celebrating Khalida Said and Modern Arabic Poetry - Couverture souple

Shimon, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913043347 ISBN 13 : 9781913043346

Editeur : Banipal Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

This issue explores and celebrates the development of modernism in modern Arabic poetry.

- Main feature is on vanguard Syrian literary critic Khalida Said with an especially commissioned interview by Dima al-Choukr - Articles on Khalida Said’s incisive and encyclopaedic works of literary criticism by Abdo Wazen, Fares Youakim and Dima al-Choukr - Plus Fatima Al-Muhsin writing about Said’s work on Arab women writers, and Akl Awit celebrating Said, the visionary critic - Selected essays by Khalida Said – on the modernist Arabic poetry movement, a portrait of her sister the poet Saniya Salih, and on Gibran’s all-encompassing vision of creativity. - Historic interviews with poets Sargon Boulus (1944-2007) and Etel Adnan (1925-2021), first time translated into English - Poems by four modernist poets – Khaled Mattawa, Liana Badr, Naji Rahim and Basim Al-Ansar - Articles by Salah Niazi, Mahmoud Chreih and Abdo Wazen on two major pioneers in Arabic prose poetry – Iraqi-Jewish Murad Mikhail (1906–1986) and Syrian-Palestinian Tawfiq Sayigh (1923-1971).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Shimon was born into a poor Assyrian family in Iraq in 1956. He left his country in 1979 to go to Hollywood and become a film-maker, travelling via Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Cairo and Tunis. In 1985 he settled in Paris as a refugee. He began writing autobiographical short stories in 1979, which were published in Arab newspapers, and poetry in 1985. In Paris his small press, Editions Gilgamesh, published a number of volumes of poetry and fiction by Arab authors including two collections of his own, Old Boy and Rain of my Mother’s Letters. In 1996 he moved to London, where he has lived ever since, working as a journalist. His passion for literature led him in 1998 to co-found Banipal magazine of modern Arab literature in English translation, which became internationally renowned. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Spanish edition of Banipal magazine, which he set up in 2020. A profile in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2003 described him as “the Initiator” and “a tireless missionary for literary matters”. In 2005 his autobiographical novel An Iraqi in Paris was published in Arabic, with a limited edition in English translation published the same year. A continuing best-seller in Arabic, described as “a manifesto of tolerance”, it is published in Moroccan, Lebanese and Egyptian editions. In 2002, he founded and edited the hugely popular Arabic literary website www.kikah.com for a number of years, then, in 2013 started Kikah Arabic magazine for international literature (both closed due to lack of funding). He also edited A Crack in the Wall (2000), poems by sixty Arab poets from the last two decades of the 20th Century, was editor of Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World (2010), and the short story collection Baghdad Noir (2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Banipal Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913043347
• ISBN 13: 9781913043346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible