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Banipal 52 – New Fiction presents new works by Habib Abdulrab Sarori, Soheir el-Masadfa, Waheed Taweela, Nadia Alkowkabani, Jokha Alharthi, Atef Abu Saif, Shukri al-Mabkhout, Jana Elhassan, Ahmed el-Madini, Hammour Ziada and Lina Hawyan Elhassan, all translated from Arabic. The authors hail from Egypt, Yemen, Oman, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan and include excerpts from the 2015 shortlist of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The book reviews include novels that range from The Book of Khalid, by Ameen Rihani, first published in 1911, to Saud Alsanousi's The Bamboo Stalk and Youssef Rakha's The Crocodiles. The feature on "Prison Writing", started in Banipal 50, continues with two new and powerful testimonies, and will remain open indefinitely for more contributions.

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This is the last issue of Banipal, the independent literary magazine, marking 25 years of translating and publishing contemporary literature by Arab authors. Arabic literature will always need a magazine like Banipal. In fact, more than one. We're closing at No 75, not because the magazine is no longer necessary but because we, as central producers, can no longer continue to operate. We no longer have the physical energy necessary and believe that for the magazine to continue, there must be new blood, a young staff, with the same enthusiasm and conviction that we have had all these years. We leave behind a massive archive of literature by umpteen different authors and in different genres, opening up an endlessly enthralling world of Arabic literary works.

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