Banipal Magazine - Issue 20 Tunisian Ali Mosbah " - Record Collector

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heralding a change in perception of Sign from a simple gestural code to a rich and expressive language

since the daffodils

mental illness and the policing of joy

a soldier and a poet

Banipal Magazine - Issue 20 Tunisian Ali Mosbah " - Record CollectorBanipal takes its name from Ashurbanipal, last great KIssue 20 features the great Iraqi poet, Saadi Youseef "I have trained myself, hard, to be free" In this interview, Saadi Youssef speaks about his relations with Badr Shakir al Sayyab, his admiration of the Greek poet Cavafy and his enduring passion for translation. He speaks at length about al Sayyab and the poets he loves and it was with difficulty that I persuaded him to talk about himself, he is