Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors Dima Wannous translated by Anna Crowe

translated by Anna Crowe

The cover artist is Mehdi Qotbi from Morocco

and Ali al-Kasimi

Susannah Tarbush In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

Banipal 37 – Iraqi Authors Dima Wannous translated by Anna CroweBanipals first issue of 2010 celebrates authors from Iraq with over half its 224 pages devoted to fiction and poetry by 21 writers from different generations, some spread across the world, but many writing from within the country. We celebrate, in particular, a new generation of Iraqi fiction writers and poets who are free to write the story of Iraq weve been waiting to hear, however hard, and are indebted to all the translators and copy editors who