Alindarka's Children Shawqi Shafiq these poems combine the sensuous

these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous

She’s from Friuli

Straddling the fissures within a man and his country

it also features Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

Among the book reviews in Banipal 47 are reviews of works by two winners of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal’s winning novel Throwing Sparks

Alindarka's Children Shawqi Shafiq these poems combine the sensuousThe masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from Belarus Alicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a sickness to be cured and replaced by the only pure form of language, the Lingo (Russian). A contemporary Hansel and Gretel adventure, the children