Banipal Magazine - Issue 27Farewell, Naguib Mahfouz! The issue opens with tributes to the writer of the world, the late Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, by Banipals editor and contributing editors Roger Allen and Peter Clark. Further on in the issue, the well known Iraqi author Jalil al Qaisi is remembered by Fadhil al Azzawi. Fourteen fiction writers dominate this issue, among them ten women authors. Basra is the setting for two disturbing but gripping stories by Iraqi author

Introduction and interview by Camilo Gomez-Rivas

with appreciation by Subhi Hadidi

Abbas Beydhoun Six Poems

Dušan Šarotar and Jani Virk

• Sasha Dugdale on Emily Lygo’s Voltskaia

the deliberate targeting of churches and the genocide of 200

Cristina Viti: Eros Alesi’s Fragments

Russia) is a poet

by coincidence

globalised world

Duna Ghali – Excerpt from the novel When the Scent Awakens

She is well-known for her readings on NE1 community radio and at performance poetry venues like ‘Northern Lines’