CONTENTS

No 4, Spring 1999

2 EDITORIAL

Margaret Obank

3 IAHIOUD DARWISH

Poems, interview and appreciations

18 ALBERT COSSERY

James Kirkup: tribute & translation of Tire latest news from al-Qahira Shaker Nouri interviews the Egyptian novelist

27 FUAD RIFOA: POEMS

Translated by Adnan and Paula Haydar

30 THE SHADOW AND THE ECHO

Yusef Habshl al-Ashqar - excerpt from his trilogy with an appreciation by translator Adnan Haydar

37 POETRY

37 Wadih Sa'adeh 40 Maram al-Massri 44 Seema Atalla

48 Mohammad A al-Hussaini 50 Mohammad al-Harthi

39 Nezar Andary 42 HatifJanabi

46 Bassem al-Meraiby 49 Ahmad Kattouah 51 Abdulaziz Jassim

52 A WRITER IT NIGHT

Ahmed Fagih talks with Margaret Obank

51 FICTION

56 Rachld Boudjedra 60 Hassan Daoud 66 Hussain al-Mozany

59 Laila al-Ouhaydib 64 Habib Selmi 73 Iman H. Younes

71 THE ARABIC NOVEL

Faisal Darraj on the problems besetting Arab novelists

79 THE POET AND THE MAIAZlllE

Samuel Shimon on Saif al-Rahbi and Nizwa 80 REVIEWS

80 Susannah Tarbush: 82 Stefan Weidner: 83 Bassam K Frangieh: 84 Samir el-Youssef: 85 Margaret Obank: 86 Peter Oark: 87 Margaret Obank: 88 Susannah Tarbush:

Taha Husain 's Education Tire Arabic Literan; Heritage 'Aa'ed ila al-Quds (Returning to Jerusalem) Rites of Assent Babel-Oued 711e Arab writer in English Bint Arab & Lebanon: Four journeys to tire Past Sun on a Cloudy Day

89 CONFERENCES

89 Translation, Identity and Modernity: the Case of Arabic 90 The House of Poetry in Morocco

91 PERFORMANCE

91 Poetry International Festival, London 92 Banipal Poetry Evening and Sargon Boulus Who Knows the Story 92 IAllCIAN OF BLACK ART

Jorn Merket and Joachim Sartorius on Marwan

91 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS

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