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Ali Bader Jawdat Fakhreddine Shakir Noori Charbel Dagher Clayton Clark 8 EDITORIAL 10 Ali Bader – A chapter from his novel Al-Kafira (The Infidel Woman), translated by Raphael Cohen 24 Charbel Dagher: Eight Poems, translated by Basil Samara 30 Shakir Noori: An excerpt from his novel Jaheem al-Rahib (The Monk’s Hell), translated by Robin Moger 40 Jawdat Fakhreddine: Four Poems, translated by Huda Fakhreddine and Roger Allen 48 THE SHORT STORIES OF ZAKARIA TAMER 50 ZAKARIA TAMER: NINE STORIES 51 “The Policeman and the Horse”, trans. Clayton Clark 54 “The Pill Man’s Fate”, trans. Jonathan Wright 56 “The Disaster”, trans. Jonathan Wright 58 “Brief Lives”, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi 61 “The Neighing of the White Horse”, trans. Spencer Scoville 67 “The First Round”, trans. Jonathan Wright 68 “He Doesn’t Know”, trans. Jonathan Wright 69 “News of the Sheep”, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi 73 “A Cold Night”, trans. Jonathan Wright 74 Subhi Hadidi: The Poet of the Short Story 78 Abdo Wazen: Hammering a new style into the Arabic short story 80 Srpko Leštarić: The Wonderful World of Zakaria Tamer 83 Alessandro Columbu: From Damascus to Oxford and Cagliari 88 Mahmoud Shukair: A Uniquely Creative Short Story Writer 91 Fadhil al-Azzawi: Sitting in a café and cursing the dictators 94 Denys Johnson-Davies: Leading Writer of Short Stories 6 BANIPAL 53 – SUMMER 2015
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96 Hartmut Fähndrich: About The Execution of Death 98 Mehmet Hakkı Suçin: Made for Each Other – the short story and Zakaria Tamer 100 Zakaria Tamer: Two Very Short Stories, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi 102 Paul Starkey reviews Tigers on the Tenth Day and The Hedgehog 106 Susannah Tarbush reviews Breaking Knees 110 Volker Kaminski reviews Die Hinrichtung von Tod (The Execution of Death) 113 Ismail Fahd Ismail: Fingers on the Trigger 114 ZAKARIA TAMER: Interview by Dima Alchukr 133 ZAKARIA TAMER: “The Promotion of Folly”, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi 134 ZAKARIA TAMER: FOUR STORIES 135 “The Arab Prison”, trans. John Peate 141 “The Old Gate”, trans. Roger Allen 144 “The Earth is Ours, the Sky belongs to the Birds”, trans. Spencer Scoville 148 “An Angry Man”, trans. Roger Allen 150 ZAKARIA TAMER: 13 STORIES FOR CHILDREN “Why did the River stop Talking?” and other stories, introduced and translated by Cayton Clark, with illustrations by Abigail O’Brien 180 ZAKARIA TAMER: The Biography BOOK REVIEWS 182 Paul Blezard: The Broken Mirrors/Sinalcol by Elias Khoury 186 Paul Starkey: Women of Karantina by Nael Eltoukhy 190 Michael Hulse: Dizza Castle by Salah Niazi 192 Margaret Obank: Studying Modern Arabic Literature: Mustafa Badawi, Scholar and Critic 195 Stephen Watts: Sand Opera by Philip Metres 198 Clare Roberts: Telepathy by Amir Tag Elsir 200 Aoe Tanami: Revolution is my Name by Mona Prince BOOKS IN BRIEF & BOOKS RECEIVED 202 Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction EVENTS 214 Abu Dhabi: The 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Award 217 Abu Dhabi: The 2015 Sheikh Zayed Book Award 220 London: Saud Alsansousi launches The Bamboo Stalk 222 CONTRIBUTORS Dima Alchukr Subhi Hadidi Susannah Tarbush Mahmoud Shukair BANIPAL 53 – SUMMER 2015 7

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Ali Bader

Jawdat Fakhreddine

Shakir Noori

Charbel Dagher

Clayton Clark

8 EDITORIAL 10 Ali Bader – A chapter from his novel Al-Kafira (The Infidel

Woman), translated by Raphael Cohen 24 Charbel Dagher: Eight Poems, translated by Basil Samara 30 Shakir Noori: An excerpt from his novel Jaheem al-Rahib (The

Monk’s Hell), translated by Robin Moger 40 Jawdat Fakhreddine: Four Poems, translated by Huda

Fakhreddine and Roger Allen 48 THE SHORT STORIES OF ZAKARIA TAMER 50 ZAKARIA TAMER: NINE STORIES

51 “The Policeman and the Horse”, trans. Clayton Clark 54 “The Pill Man’s Fate”, trans. Jonathan Wright 56 “The Disaster”, trans. Jonathan Wright 58 “Brief Lives”, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi 61 “The Neighing of the White Horse”, trans. Spencer Scoville 67 “The First Round”, trans. Jonathan Wright 68 “He Doesn’t Know”, trans. Jonathan Wright 69 “News of the Sheep”, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi 73 “A Cold Night”, trans. Jonathan Wright 74 Subhi Hadidi: The Poet of the Short Story 78 Abdo Wazen: Hammering a new style into the Arabic short story 80 Srpko Leštarić: The Wonderful World of Zakaria Tamer 83 Alessandro Columbu: From Damascus to Oxford and Cagliari 88 Mahmoud Shukair: A Uniquely Creative Short Story Writer 91 Fadhil al-Azzawi: Sitting in a café and cursing the dictators 94 Denys Johnson-Davies: Leading Writer of Short Stories

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