Banipal 38 – Arab American Authors Joseph Butler Kadhim al-Hallaq – An excerpt

Kadhim al-Hallaq – An excerpt from My One-Eyed Father and his Six Wives

re-inventing themselves with echoes of chants and prayers and charms

while Poetry Ireland Review lauded "a very well-crafted body of work

We hope a second volume witll be forthcoming

a meditation on HIV and AIDS in Jamaica commissioned by the Pulitzer Centre

Banipal 38 – Arab American Authors Joseph Butler Kadhim al-Hallaq – An excerptBanipal 38 presents over 150 pages of works of poetry, fiction and memoir by 29 writers from the USA and Canada of Arab origin. Their literature is already a subject for university study and although we were wary about using such a label of hyphenated identification, the increasingly significant contribution to American and world literature being made by the growing numbers of Arab American authors meant it was high time to focus on their work. In