4 EDITORIAL 5 Ashur Etwebi – Six Poems, translated by Khaled Mattawa 10 Rabee Jaber – Excerpt from the novel Druze of Belgrade:

Hanna Yacoub’s Story, translated by Nancy Roberts 26 Ali Bader – An excerpt from the novel The Tobacco Keeper,

translated by Amira Nowaira 32 Alexandra Chreiteh – An excerpt from the novel Always

Coca Cola, translated by Michelle Hartman 42 Amir Tag Elsir – Chapters from the novel The Larvae Hunter,

translated by William M Hutchins 53 ARABIC WRITERS IN SWEDEN 54 Salim Barakat – An excerpt from the novel Rampaging

Geese, translated by Thomas Aplin 70 Manhal Alsarraj – An excerpt from the novel As the River

Must, translated by Ghenwa Hayek 76 Faraj Bayrakdar – A Poem, translated by Camilo Gomez-

Rivas 83 Jalil Haydar – Four Poems, translated by Allison Blecker 88 Mohammad Afif al-Hussaini – Two Poems, translated by

Robin Moger 92 Nassif al-Nassiri – Five Poems, translated by John Peate 96 Sabri Youssef – A short story The Sweetness of Laughter,

translated by Ghenwa Hayek 98 Farouq Salloum – Two poems, translated by John Peate 101 Jonas Hassen Khemiri – Vanya Knows, a short story translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles 104 Johanna Sellman – on Jonas Hassen Khemiri 108 CELEBRATING ADONIS 108 V.S. Naipaul – A Master of our Times 110 Adonis – from “Concerto for Jerusalem”, translated by

Khaled Mattawa 115 Abdo Wazen – Adonis’s Concerto 117 Joachim Sartorius – Citizen of the world 118 Yang Lian – Poetry will save us

2 BANIPAL 41 – SUMMER 2011