Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Wafa’a LamraniBanipal 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,
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Juris Kronbergs
So much so that a number of lines from both of them have transgressed into these versions
Saleh Diab and Jackleen Salam
As soon as the April hailstorm ended
On two nights separated by a gap of a dozen years
Dylan Jones
including one short lyric where floodwater puddles seem to resemble war-torn continents
Author Digby Fairweather is a jazz cornettist
this is their first appearance in English
Mona Zaki: Yawm al-Din [Judgement Day] by Rasha al-Ameer
