Banipal Magazine - Issue 28 Julia Deakin Both angels are blown backwards

Both angels are blown backwards into a future they cannot face

A phone call from a distant hospital summons him to the bedside of his father

Jimmy Witherspoon

re-published by Five Leaves)

This book describes the private lives of these secret Jews

Banipal Magazine - Issue 28 Julia Deakin Both angels are blown backwardsEvery issue now we seem to be saying farewell to a well known Arab literary figure. This time, we open sadly with a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub, the London based Lebanese co founder of Al Saqi Books, writer and artist, who died so suddenly in February. We dedicate our major feature on Lebanese poetry to her memory. Lebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene, both contemporaneously and historically; this feature presents