Banipal 42 - New Writing from the Emirates Abdelkarim al-Tabbal

Banipal 42 - New Writing from the Emirates Abdelkarim al-TabbalBanipal 42 focuses on the literature being written now in the United Arab Emirates. As readers begin their journey into the works of 27 writers, three introductory essays open up the background to the short story, the development of modern poetry and the state of the novel in the UAE today. Among the stories that stand out are Abdul Hamid Ahmeds 'Kuyas Little Things', about an Indian workers struggle to provide for his far away family, the excerpt

It was the lady

A foreign language is a paradoxical escape: it takes you out of yourself

Khaled Mattawa

Paul Chaoul and Salah Stétié

Adel Khozam

Phil Cope takes the reader on a journey of discovery through densely wooded terrain

shaman masks

In 1985 he emigrated to Australia with his family

Jawdat Fakhreddine

before place has been made for them

The Sidra and The Seafront

dramatist and actor Ramsey Nasr