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5 FOUR EMIRATI POETS 6 Nujoom al-Ghanem – Five Poems, translated by

Khaled al-Masri and Allison Blecker 11 Ahmed Rashid Thani – Five Poems, translated by

Sinan Antoon 15 Khulood al-Mu’alla – Seven Poems, translated by

Rasheeda Plenty and the author 19 Khalid Albudoor – Four Poems, translated by John

Peate TRAVELLING TALE 23 Youssef Rakha – Automotive Monologues ARAB AMERICAN AUTHORS – page 34 36 Philip Metres – A Poem Home / Front 40 Gregory Orfalea – Prologue of the forthcoming novel

The Fiends 50 Mohja Kahf – A Poem Brenda Unbound 53 Patricia Sarrafian Ward – An excerpt from a novel-

in-progress dead boys 62 Fady Joudah – Three Poems 65 Elmaz Abinader – An excerpt from a forthcoming memoir The Water Cycle 72 Nathalie Handal – A poem Song Posts 76 SInan Antoon – Four poems, translated by the author 80 Assef al-Jundi – Two poems 83 Deborah al-Najjar – Flash Fiction No News 86 Kadhim al-Hallaq – An excerpt from a forthcoming novel, My One-Eyed Father and his Six Wives, translated by Ghenwa Hayek 96 Lisa Suhair Majaj – Five poems 100 Lawrence Joseph – A poem Parentheses 102 Dunya Mikhail – Three poems, translated by the poet with thanks to John Peate 106 Pauline Kaldas – A short story A Conversation 112 Deema Shehabi – Three poems

2 BANIPAL 38 – ARAB AMERICAN AUTHORS 116 Lara Hamza – Three poems 118 Jackleen Salam – A Poem A Biography of Exile,

translated by the author and Frazer Sutherland 122 Susan Muaddi Darraj – An excerpt from the novel

The Well 130 Laila Halaby – An excerpt from the forthcoming novel Woman, Be My Country 138 Evelyn Shakir – An excerpt from a forthcoming memoir At Home and Away 145 Salah Awad – A Poem, The Face, translated by John

Peate 149 Iman Mersal – Five Poems, translated by Youssef

Rakha 153 Hayan Charara – Three Poems 157 Etel Adnan – An excerpt from a prose text Fog 163 Sargon Boulus – Three Poems, translated by Sinan

Antoon 168 Naomi Shihab Nye – Two Poems 172 Khaled Mattawa – Three Poems 177 D H Melhem – An excerpt from a memoir-in-

progress Lights in a Doorway THEATRE SCRIPT 182 Hassan Abdulrazzak – A monologue Love in the

Time of Barriers BOOK REVIEWS 189 James Dalglish Last of the Angels and Cell Block Five by

Fadhil al-Azzawi 194 Mohja Kahf Flawed Landscape by Sharif Elmusa and

Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj 198 Stephen Watts Toqueville by Khaled Mattawa 200 and For Love and Horses by Nathalie Handal 202 Susannah Tarbush Cairo Swan Song by Mekkawi Said 205 Olivia Snaije Beirut39 New Writing from the Arab World edited by Samuel Shimon 208 BOOKS IN BRIEF – Fiction, Poetry, Memoir &

Biography, Literary Criticism, Journal, Film, Dance EVENTS 216 Ann Arbor: Radius of American Writers Conference 222 ALL CONTRIBUTORS 224 To subscribe please turn to this last page

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