Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Alex Barr Dismissed in 1971 from a

Dismissed in 1971 from a teaching post in Stepney when he published a book of his pupils' poems

She now lives in Riga

“Lucas is a first rate craftsman

then turned her bespectacled face to the class and said: ‘Today

Hayet Raies A short story Azrael and the Author

Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Alex Barr Dismissed in 1971 from aBanipal 32, Summer 2008, introduces a number of new voices for the first time published in English. There is the young Egyptian author, Mohamed Salah al Azab, who is 27 with already several literary awards to his name. There is Abdulaziz Al Farsi, from Oman, with an excerpt from his debut novel, [Weeping Earth . . . Laughing Saturn. Lebanese author Ahmad Ali El Zein, has authored four novels and his latest, The Edge of Oblivion, which we excerpt here,