translated by Ghenwa Hayek 124 Ines Abassi – Three Poems, translated by Allison

Blecker 128 Tahar Bekri – A Sequence-in-Progress, translated by

Marilyn Hacker 132 Nouredine Betayeb – Four Poems, translated by John

Peate 136 Miled Faiza – Two Poems, translated by Karen McNeil and Tristan Cranfield 138 Adam Fet’hi – Selected Poems, translated by Camilo

Gomez-Rivas 143 Kamel Riahi – An excerpt from the novel The Gorilla –

Last of the Leader’s Children, translated by Peter Clark 148 Brahim Dargouthi – The Story of the Fisherman Who

Continues to Search, translated by Issa J. Boullata 154 Moncef Mezghanni – Poems translated by Sinan Antoon 158 Mohamed Ali Yousfi – Thresholds of Paradise, excerpts from the novel, translated by Thomas Aplin 166 Hassan Ben Othman – The Berlin Wall, a short story translated by Ali Azeriah 174 Saghir Oulad Ahmed – A poem The Will, translated by

Tristan Cranfield 183 Fawzia Zouari – Essay: Time’s running out for

Scheherazade, translated by Judith Landry BOOK REVIEWS 189 Lulu Norman The Jokers by Albert Cossery 193 Olivia Snaije The Scents of Marie-Claire by Habib Selmi 197 Norbert Hirschborn Inclined to Speak by Hayan Charara 200 André Naffis-Sahely Journal of an Ordinary Grief by

Mahmoud Darwish 202 Zuzana Kratka The American Granddaughter by Inaam

Kachachi 204 Stephen Watts Treason by Hédi Kaddour 207 Susannah Tarbush Moon over Samarqand by Mohamed

Mansi Qandil TRIBUTES 210 Taher Wattar – 1936–2010 212 Farouk Abdel-Kader – 1938–2010 214 BOOKS IN BRIEF Fiction and Non-Fiction EVENTS 220 Emirati poets at UK Festivals, Ledbury and London 222 CONTRIBUTORS

Thani al-Suwaidi

Inaam Kachachi

Taleb Alrefai

Khaled al Maaly

Fran Hazelton

Friends

Imad Khashan

Hassouna Mosbahi

Saif al Rahbi

Faisal Laibi Sahi

Ahmad Hisso

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