Banipal 67 – Elias Khoury, The Novelist presents a major feature on the celebrated Lebanese and international author, with excerpts from his latest novel Stella Maris, the second in the Children of the Ghetto trilogy, and a chapter from his first novel (until now not translated), plus in-depth articles on the corpus of novels including translations of his works into Hebrew, and reviews of his early novels.

• We bid Adieu to poet Amjad Nasser in Fakhri Saleh’s essay on his poetry collections.

• We introduce two winners of the Moroccan Argana International Poetry Prize – Wadih Saadeh and Hawad.

• Also featured are the six shortlisted novels of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

• Plus works by two well-known Iraqi writers: Muhammad Khudayyir and Muhsin al-Musawi – and poems by three young poets from Lebanon, Palestine and Tunisia.

MANY THANKS to all our contributors, authors, translators, and editors, who have been working from home under coronavirus restrictions.