CONTENTS

No 3, October 1998

2 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Margaret Obank

3 SELECTED POEMS

by Abbas Beydhoun

8 INTERVIEW WITH ABDELRAHMAN MUNIF

compiled by Samuel Shimon, with comment, review and analysis from Peter Theroux, Peter Clark & Faisal Darraj

18 THREE POEMS

by Anton Sharnmas

18 FICTION I NOVEL EXCERPTS

1 ajem Wali

23 Laila al-Othman

26 Kareem Abed

28 Younis al-Akhzami

31 Mohammed al-Belushi 33 Mohammed el-Mezdioui 36 Hadia Sa'id 38 Samuel Shimon 40 Ahmed al-Fagih 42 Mohamed Berrada

44 INTERVIEW WITH COSTA GAVRAS

by Samuel Shimon

48 POETRY

48 Qassim Haddad 52 Ahmad Fu' ad igm 54 Nouri al-Jarrah 58 Adel Khuzam 60 Khalid al-Maaly 62 Khaled Mattawa

51 Dunya Mikhail 53 Mohammad Ali Farhat 56 Amel Moussa 59 Sharif al-Rubai 61 Anwar al-Ghassani

84 THE ARRIVAL OF A STRANGER

Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser talks to Banipal With selected poems translated by Sargon Boulus

88 REVIEWS

68 Stefan Weidner: Writing the Self 70 Susannah Tarbush: 111 the House of Silence 72 Samir el-Youssef: Studies in Ca11011ical and Popular

Arabic Literature

74 Salah iazi: Live Theatre & Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arab World

75 LITERARY TRANSLATION

Third International Colloquium of Literary Translation

78 PLAY a PERFORMANCE

76 Ghazi Algosaibi: Play excerpt She and He 78 Mai Ghoussoub: Monologues and Sculptures

Jamila is my name/ Homage to Josephine (Baker)

80 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS

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