Banipal Book Club: ‘The Book Smuggler,’ by Omaima al-Khamis (tr. Sarah Enany)
Banipal Book Club will be discussing The Book Smuggler by Omaima al-Khamis, translated by Sarah Enany.
Banipal Book Club
Banipal Book Club: ‘Things I Left Behind,’ by Shada Mustafa, tr. Nancy Roberts
Join Banipal’s May book club to discuss Shada Mustafa’s “Things I Left Behind,” translated by Nancy Roberts.
Banipal Book Club: Shahla Ujayli’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’
The Banipal Book Club will be discussing Shahla Ujyali’s ‘A Bed for the King’s Daughter’, tr. Sawad Hussain, on Wednesday, February 23.
Banipal Book Club: ‘The Girl With Braided Hair’ by Rasha Adly
The book under discussion is Rasha Adly’s “The Girl With Braided Hair,” tr. Sarah Enany, published by Hoopoe Fiction, and the winner of the 2021 Saif Gobash Banipal Prize.
Banipal Book Club – ‘Sarajevo Firewood’
Join the Banipal Book Club for a discussion of ‘Sarajevo Firewood’ by Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, featuring its translator Paul Starkey.
Upcoming Events: Translating Colloquial Poetry, Launching ‘Book of Ramallah’, Najwan Darwish Reading, More
A selection of online events from the coming week.