Saadi Youssef

7711

Magazine of Modern Arab Literature

SALUTES IHSAN ABDEL KOUDDOUS

Fadhil al-Azzawi

Raphael Cohen, Mahmoud al-Ghitani, Hassouna Mosbahi, Jonathan Smolin

PLUS: Mosab Abu Toha, Huda Hamed, Hatif Janabi,

Shada Mustafa, Mohammed al-Sharekh

Tribute to Saadi Youssef

(1934–2021)

Mohammed al-Sharekh

Iman Mersal

Jalal Barjas

12 Editorial: Saadi Youssef (1934-2021) 14 Margaret Obank: Farewell, Saadi Youssef, “the last communist” 17 Samuel Shimon: Banipal salutes Ihsan Abdel

Kouddous 18 Fadhil al-Azzawi: Saadi Youssef, the Poet of

Small Details 26 Mosab Abu Toha: “Leaving Childhood Behind”

and other poems 35 The Edward Said Library in Gaza 36 Hatif Janabi: Five Poems, translated by Kahtan

Mandwee

44 Ammar Almamoun reviews Sanderellat Masqat

(Cinderellas of Muscat) by Huda Hamed 49 Huda Hamed: Cinderellas of Muscat, an excerpt from the novel, translated by Chip Rossetti 66 Katia al-Tawil reviews Ma Taraktu Khalfi (Things

I left Behind) by Shada Mustafa 71 Shada Mustafa: Things I left Behind, excerpts from the novel translated by Nancy Roberts

10 BANIPAL 71 – SUMMER 2021