Banipal 60 – Alaa al-Deeb, A writer apart Charlotte Eichler of its grammar

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Banipal 60 – Alaa al-Deeb, A writer apart Charlotte Eichler of its grammarBanipal completes its 20th year of publishing with a major feature on the influential Egyptian author Alaa al Deeb, with translations from a number of his pivotal works, and articles by six fellow Egyptians from the next generations of writers. The issue is opened, however, with chapters from Kitsch 2011, a novel by the Tunisian journalist Safi Said, who calls it himself a mongrel text par excellence; with poems from Widad Nabi from Syria and Lamia