Banipal Magazine - Issue 2Interviews with poet Adonis and poet painter Etel Adnan. Works by Saadi Youssef and 8 other poets, 9 fiction writers, a tribute to the late Nizar Qabbani, reports on the Quartet and Garnet publishing houses, and on Iraqi exile writing. Editorial Is there going to be a third issue? Saadi Youssef: Six poems FICTION Ibrahim Aslan Samira Azzam Samir El Youssef Latifa Baqa Yousif Qaid Luay Abdelilah Paula Haydar INTERVIEW with Adonis There are many Easts

New and selected Poems by Chris Searle

but also compassion

Richard Congreve

only access to foreign anxieties and temptations

Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an excerpt from Blood Test

Reviews and Comments

Kestutis Navakas

Amira Abul Husn

"A well-paced and tightly plotted novel that holds a magnifying glass to the middle classes to highlight their dark underbelly

today autumn creeps between stone and leaf

Tribute to Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004)

it must be stressed that this is an important book covering many topics