Banipal Magazine - Issue 28Every issue now we seem to be saying farewell to a well known Arab literary figure. This time, we open sadly with a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub, the London based Lebanese co founder of Al Saqi Books, writer and artist, who died so suddenly in February. We dedicate our major feature on Lebanese poetry to her memory. Lebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene, both contemporaneously and historically; this feature presents

not the flurries of hard consonants

and a short story written in English directly by Youssef Rakha

Ferguson's writing is a unique amalgam of the starkly real – the terrible poverty of wartime Tyneside

Mona Abdulkader al-Ali – A short story

Palestine and Syria

Editorial by David and Helen Constantine

explains guest editor Victor Schiferli in his introduction

I don’t see so much of the girl –

John Heath-Stubbs

Othello in the Pyramid of Dreams 1-900072-02-5 68 pp £6

John Grande

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