Bernard Kops' East End Jeffrey Wainwright and the heart-breakingly confused and

and the heart-breakingly confused and ever-optimistic elderly Tom

all published to considerable acclaim

After a lifetime working as a professor of Arabic literature and a translator of contemporary Arab authors into English

translated by Ghenwa Hayek

Banipal 31 presents the first of a three-part series on Syrian literature

Bernard Kops' East End Jeffrey Wainwright and the heart-breakingly confused andBernard Kops is one of the best known playwrights of his time. He achieved recognition with his first play The Hamlet of Stepney Green, which has been performed worldwide. He has subsequently written more than forty plays for stage and radio, nine novels, seven volumes of poetry and two volumes of autobiography. His Dreams of Anne Frank tours constantly. Bernard Kops is still writing, receiving recently a major award from the Arts Council to develop a