Tomorrow at 4 p.m. BST, Banipal magazine and St. Aidan’s College will be hosting a Zoom event to celebrate five years of the Banipal visiting writer fellowship.
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We asked a number of Iraqi writers, translators, and scholars to put together a list of their highlights from Iraqi literature.
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UK Refuses Visa for Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow Hammour Ziada
“How can it continue if such an award-winning and successful Arab author is refused a visa? We will challenge this denial and discrimination with all our might. We are presently considering our next steps, as well as the possibility of bringing in a substitute Fellow for 2019.”
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Ali Bader Inaugurates First Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship
“The annual residency, which launched this week, is set to continue through April 21.”
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Hammour Ziada 2019 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellow
St. Alban’s College and Banipal magazine have announced that Sudanese author Hammour Ziada has won the 2019 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship.
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Najwa Bin Shatwan Wins 2018 Banipal Visiting Writer Fellowship
“Bin Shatwan is scheduled to arrive in Durham to begin her residency in January 2018. During her three-month residency, she’s meant to engage in monthly literary activities with writers and readers in Durham, the northeast of England, and in London — in addition to pursuing her work-in-progress.”
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Why Iraqi Novelist Ali Bader Shifted Women’s Liberation to the Center of His Work
His interest shifted from the mechanisms of political reform to a social revolution. Women’s liberation, he said, “is at the heart” of this.
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10 Books: Influential Arabic Nonfiction by Women, 15th C-Present
Although Arab women’s novels are (sometimes) celebrated in English translation, their nonfiction contributions are largely overlooked.
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Is there ‘Too Much Balance’ in the International Prize for Arabic Fiction? Where Authors Are from, Year by Year
CORRECTION: The 2008 longlist is not on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction website (English, Arabic) and was, I’m told, sent to journalists after the shortlist was released in 2008.
However, a journalist-novelist has now sent along a copy of the 2008 longlist.
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