Mirror images of sparkling light
paints a convincing if sometimes unsettling portrait of the poet’s adopted city
Robert Frost
Susannah Tarbush In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
It attempts to get at the initial shadows and regrets which are so formative
BANIPAL 49 - A Cornucopia of Short Stories Jerry White Mirror images of sparkling lightBANIPAL'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,