Banipal 67 – Elias Khoury, The Novelist presents a major feature on the celebrated Lebanese and international author, with excerpts from his latest novel Stella Maris, the second in the Children of the Ghetto trilogy, and a chapter from his first novel (until now not translated), plus in-depth articles on the corpus of novels including translations of his works into Hebrew, and reviews of his early novels.

• We bid Adieu to poet Amjad Nasser in Fakhri Saleh’s essay on his poetry collections.

• We introduce two winners of the Moroccan Argana International Poetry Prize – Wadih Saadeh and Hawad.

• Also featured are the six shortlisted novels of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

• Plus works by two well-known Iraqi writers: Muhammad Khudayyir and Muhsin al-Musawi – and poems by three young poets from Lebanon, Palestine and Tunisia.

MANY THANKS to all our contributors, authors, translators, and editors, who have been working from home under coronavirus restrictions.

Translated by: Humphrey Davies, William M Hutchins, Mbarek Sryfi
Photographs by: Kheridine Mabrouk