Banipal 62 – A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema E. A. Markham

Banipal 62 – A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema E. A. MarkhamBanipal 62 A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema is a special collaboration with Londons SAFAR Arab film festival (13 18 September) and features articles and reviews on book and film pairs, including Horses of God, Men in the Sun, The Wedding of Zein, For Bread Alone and Gate of the Sun, plus presentations and an interview with Daoud Abdel Sayed, director of the famous Egyptian film Kit Kat, adapted from the novel The Heron. Banipal 62 also

Always there is yearning for meaning

encouragement of herself and her sisters to make independent lives for

the poem combines Mary's lament at Christ’s tomb with popular Greek folk traditions of resurrection and Spring to create a universal lament sung by every bereaved mother ‘who sits and mourns on the blood-stained street with her heart flayed

Unnerved by a series of threatening phone calls and what she believes is evidence of a stalker

Igor Chinnov

While the years pass

‘This one will break a few hearts

and said to me: ‘Get inside out of the wind

My Lou I shall sleep tonight in the trenches

a novel by the Tunisian journalist Safi Said

Josh Ekroy

the legacy of Empire and different perspectives on the nature of history and reality