Banipal 69 - 9 New Novels Nagat Ali First published in 1954

First published in 1954

Pedro Serrano

a tribute to the late Nizar Qabbani

plus a conversation between two women poets from Uruguay: Laura Chalar and Laura Cesarco Eglin discuss exile

Translation has often been a sort of smuggling

Banipal 69 - 9 New Novels Nagat Ali First published in 1954Banipal 69 opens by saluting in texts by two of its major authors, the city of Beirut that was devastated by the calamitous explosion at its port on 4 August: Beirutshima is a resounding and moving poem by the poet Abdo Wazen that describes vividly and painfully the sudden and awful moments of the destruction as tongues of hellfire shot out in a nightmare moment like eternity, in a brilliant translation by Paul Starkey. Elias Khourys essay The City of