Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Charlotte Greig the film stars Gina McKee

the film stars Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen

'The Hiding Room' does not look back nostalgically

— Boston Sunday Globe

three translations

Novelist Wendy Robertson spent three years working with female prison inmates

Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Charlotte Greig the film stars Gina McKeeBanipal 32, Summer 2008, introduces a number of new voices for the first time published in English. There is the young Egyptian author, Mohamed Salah al Azab, who is 27 with already several literary awards to his name. There is Abdulaziz Al Farsi, from Oman, with an excerpt from his debut novel, [Weeping Earth . . . Laughing Saturn. Lebanese author Ahmad Ali El Zein, has authored four novels and his latest, The Edge of Oblivion, which we excerpt here,