Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Gavin Weston It is a time of

It is a time of ferment

this is a no-punch-unpulled diary of a young man who found himself at the UK core of a vital new music which rattled the mainstream and shook the floors of jazz clubs from New York to London in the fifties

This collection of essays charts both the way Mittelholzer’s work was read in the 1960s

Summers started mapping the emotional geography of his new world

Cover artist: Nabil Abu Hamad

Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Gavin Weston It is a time ofBanipal 64 A Rebel named Hanan al Shaykh features the Lebanese, now London based author whose spirit of rebellion has stayed with her, enriching the Arab literary scene since her first works as a teenager in Beirut. The issue opens with poems by the late Lebanese poet Bassam Hajjar, now read widely by young Arab poets who find him pioneering and inspirational. A second poet is Iraqi Adnan Mohsen with poems of the ordinary, the familiar and the