Banipal Magazine - Issue 22Banipal, No 22, presents an intriguing selection of works from around the Arab world from Lebanon, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Syria, Morocco, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia. The cover artist is Kurdish Iraqi painter Sadradeen, CONTENTS: Cover artist: Sadradeen Ali Mosbah A short story Wind Abbas Beydhoun Six Poems Najwa Barakat Excerpt from A Busload of Good People Hassan al Shami reviews A Busload of Good People Tayeb Salih A short story If

Aleksandr Wat

Boccaccio knelt Inside the still unfinished duomo

Egypt and Australasia

and that is here too

the excerpt from Sara al-Jarwan’s novel Letters to my Lord the Sultan

South Wales Argus

Her poetry has been published in The Guardian

Tamer Fathy Three Poems

Five Voices and Mr Ma'ruf's Woes – the first time his work has been translated into English

Samir el-Youssef: I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

including murder

capture on a number of borders and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib during the Saddam regime)