Banipal 58 - Arab Literary AwardsThe Spring issue starts our 20th year of publication with a wide range of works, including the title feature on Arab Literary Awards in which publishers, critics, authors, and literary journalists write about the impact of these awards on encouraging reading, on creative writing and on the literary scene. Also excerpts from the six shortlisted novels of the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, short stories from Naguib Mahfouz, Muhammad

poetry and short stories

despite his pacifist inclinations he enlisted and

He returned to Jerusalem in 1993 after living in Beirut

Tracy Chevalier

who introduces each poem

Influenced by Elizabeth Bishop and the Morpho butterfly

She presents both historical subjects

Nick Lambert is researcher in architectural history at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment

of what ought to be

with Frank van Meurs the most comprehensive bilingual anthology of Dutch poetry in English (Turning Tides)

Sabri Moussa: Three short stories

lasting nearly two years