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n zz n w 1 Painting to a poem of Lebanese poet Salah Stetia • Dhia Azzawi was born in Iraq in 1939. He has degrees in archeology and fine art from Baghdad University and has lived in London since 1976 where he works full-time as an artist. Azzawi is internationally renowned, and has exhibited hi work throughout the Arab world, and in the West - in the United States, Britain, Switzerland, France, India, Poland, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea and ex-Yugoslavia. He started exhibiting in 1965, with a One Man Show in Baghdad and a Group Exhibition in Beirut. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions of poster art, drawings, graphic art, calligraphy, and contemporary art, and in many group exhibitions. ington DC, and at Jeddah and Riyadh international airports. Azzawi has published limited editions of printed work , which indude Homage to Ja,rnd Selim (1989), Al-Jawahiri \'er e (1990) and Adoni (1991). 11 ....\zzawi today i part of a global cultural movement of break-down and renewal in the Arab world. His painting is genuinely rooted in Lithograph of verses by Iraqi poet Al-Jawahiri Arab imagination and reality. It achieves universality." Tahar Ben Jalloun The public collections of Azzawi's work indude many national museums: the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Library of Congress, Washington DC; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; the Museums of Modern Art in Baghdad, Damascus, Amman and Tunis. His work is also shown in the Gulbenkian Collection, Barcelona, at the World Bank, Wash- "The poem is very important. It gives the artist a great deal in terms of atmosphere." Azzawi
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CONTENTS No 3, October 1998 2 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT Margaret Obank 3 SELECTED POEMS by Abbas Beydhoun 8 INTERVIEW WITH ABDELRAHMAN MUNIF compiled by Samuel Shimon, with comment, review and analysis from Peter Theroux, Peter Clark & Faisal Darraj 18 THREE POEMS by Anton Sharnmas 18 FICTION I NOVEL EXCERPTS 1 ajem Wali 23 Laila al-Othman 26 Kareem Abed 28 Younis al-Akhzami 31 Mohammed al-Belushi 33 Mohammed el-Mezdioui 36 Hadia Sa'id 38 Samuel Shimon 40 Ahmed al-Fagih 42 Mohamed Berrada 44 INTERVIEW WITH COSTA GAVRAS by Samuel Shimon 48 POETRY 48 Qassim Haddad 52 Ahmad Fu' ad igm 54 Nouri al-Jarrah 58 Adel Khuzam 60 Khalid al-Maaly 62 Khaled Mattawa 51 Dunya Mikhail 53 Mohammad Ali Farhat 56 Amel Moussa 59 Sharif al-Rubai 61 Anwar al-Ghassani 84 THE ARRIVAL OF A STRANGER Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser talks to Banipal With selected poems translated by Sargon Boulus 88 REVIEWS 68 Stefan Weidner: Writing the Self 70 Susannah Tarbush: 111 the House of Silence 72 Samir el-Youssef: Studies in Ca11011ical and Popular Arabic Literature 74 Salah iazi: Live Theatre & Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arab World 75 LITERARY TRANSLATION Third International Colloquium of Literary Translation 78 PLAY a PERFORMANCE 76 Ghazi Algosaibi: Play excerpt She and He 78 Mai Ghoussoub: Monologues and Sculptures Jamila is my name/ Homage to Josephine (Baker) 80 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS b October 1998 1

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CONTENTS

No 3, October 1998

2 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Margaret Obank

3 SELECTED POEMS

by Abbas Beydhoun

8 INTERVIEW WITH ABDELRAHMAN MUNIF

compiled by Samuel Shimon, with comment, review and analysis from Peter Theroux, Peter Clark & Faisal Darraj

18 THREE POEMS

by Anton Sharnmas

18 FICTION I NOVEL EXCERPTS

1 ajem Wali

23 Laila al-Othman

26 Kareem Abed

28 Younis al-Akhzami

31 Mohammed al-Belushi 33 Mohammed el-Mezdioui 36 Hadia Sa'id 38 Samuel Shimon 40 Ahmed al-Fagih 42 Mohamed Berrada

44 INTERVIEW WITH COSTA GAVRAS

by Samuel Shimon

48 POETRY

48 Qassim Haddad 52 Ahmad Fu' ad igm 54 Nouri al-Jarrah 58 Adel Khuzam 60 Khalid al-Maaly 62 Khaled Mattawa

51 Dunya Mikhail 53 Mohammad Ali Farhat 56 Amel Moussa 59 Sharif al-Rubai 61 Anwar al-Ghassani

84 THE ARRIVAL OF A STRANGER

Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser talks to Banipal With selected poems translated by Sargon Boulus

88 REVIEWS

68 Stefan Weidner: Writing the Self 70 Susannah Tarbush: 111 the House of Silence 72 Samir el-Youssef: Studies in Ca11011ical and Popular

Arabic Literature

74 Salah iazi: Live Theatre & Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arab World

75 LITERARY TRANSLATION

Third International Colloquium of Literary Translation

78 PLAY a PERFORMANCE

76 Ghazi Algosaibi: Play excerpt She and He 78 Mai Ghoussoub: Monologues and Sculptures

Jamila is my name/ Homage to Josephine (Baker)

80 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS

b October 1998 1

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