Banipal Magazine - Issue 21To celebrate publishing 21 issues of Banipal, we invited friends, literary translators, authors, professors and journalists to share with readers their thoughts on the achievements of the magazine and its role in developing dialogue and exhange between cultures. CONTENTS Cover artist: Azzawi Editorial 21 issues of dialogue and exchange Hoda Barakat Chapters from Disciples of Passion Fadhil al Azzawi Chapters from The Dead City Mohammed Achaari Eight

and has already started working on her next collection of poems in English

Suzanne Alwayan

Chawki Bazih Cabaret Su’ad by Mohammed Suwaid

The designer-murders of American Psycho meets the inventions of The Wasp Factory

Michelene Wandor’s new collection of short stories ranges from Biblical to modern

A Cloud from Sodom trans

the egg and spoon race to the Cup Final

Domestic familiarity is made colourful in stories both imaginative and comic

I know this in my scant Estonian: that laul

Ken Smith and Charles Tomlinson are represented by up to four poems each in this collection celebrating 15 years of Beeston Poets

gatherings of dust

It publishes fiction