BANIPAL 49 - A Cornucopia of Short StoriesBANIPAL's first issue of 2014 presents a rich collection of a traditional art stories by 21 authors, writing in a range of styles and selected from all generations of short story writers and from all parts of the Arab world from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Jordan; from Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia; and from Yemen, Oman and Kuwait. From pioneers Zakaria Tamer, Mahmoud Shukair, Ibrahim Aslan, Said al Kafrawi and Ahmed Bouzfour, to Jokha al Harth,

_All Your Talk_

a glow-worm might become a wasp or ‘a toy on standby’

satirical sting and freshness of wording

and that is here too

his second in English translation

London University and St Mary’s University College

Susannah Tarbush In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

'the mucus of slugs'

to gay men in a Bangkok sex club

the novel has much to say about the power of forgiveness and the possibility of transcending hurt

Nathan Evans

Her poems are widely published in magazines and anthologies