CONTENTS

No 2, June 1998

2 EDITORIAL

Is there going to be a third issue?

3 SIX POEMS

by Sa'adi Youssef

8 SHORT STORIES I NOVEL EXCERPTS

8 Ibrahim Asian 11 Samira Azzam 17 Khalil al-Neimi 20 Samir el-Youssef

9 Latifa Baqa 14 Yousif al-Qa'eed 18 Luay Abdelilah 23 PauJa Haydar

30 All INTERVIEW WITH ADONIS

by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon

41 POETRY

41 Saleem Barakat

49 Salam Sarhan

45 Saif al-Rahbi

50 Amina Said

52 Taha Muhammad Ali 54 Basheer al-Baker 56 Mohammed Bennis 58 Tahar Bekri

59 PRIVATE SYNTHESES

AllD MULTIPLE IDEllTIES Interview with poet, writer and artist Etel Adnan

82 REVIEWS

62 Susannah Tarbush: Memory for Forgetfulness 65 Anne Chamber Beinlt Blues 67 Peter Clark: Leaving Beirut 68 As' ad Khairallah: Eternite Volante 70 Stefan Weidner: Ala -al-Darb ... ma' al-Tayib Salih

71 THE MOOll DECLARES MOURlllllG .

A tribute to Nizar Qabbani by Margaret Obank

72 WHAT'S BETWEEN THE POET

AllD THE CHURCH? Film script by Samuel Shimon

74 TRAllSLATIOllS WITHOUT TRANSLATORS

Peter Clark on Arab writers who write in English

78 THE IRAOI MIGRANT NOVEL

Fabna Mohsen on developments in novel-writing among Iraqi writers

78 ... A KISS OF DEATH

Zelfa Hourani of Quartet Books on the perils of publishing

79 A WINDOW ON THE WALLED BARDEii

Sue Coll of Gamet Publishing on their Arab Women Writers Series

80 CONTRIBUTORS AllD TRANSLATORS

Back cover: Etel Adnan painting for catalogue of art exhibition, 1979

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