Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Gavin Weston can be centre stage and

can be centre stage and come to life in this beautiful showcase of some of Julia's best-loved botanical watercolours

Shamini Sriskandarajah

It is a time of ferment

This collection of essays charts both the way Mittelholzer’s work was read in the 1960s

Cover artist: Nabil Abu Hamad

Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Gavin Weston can be centre stage andBanipal 64 A Rebel named Hanan al Shaykh features the Lebanese, now London based author whose spirit of rebellion has stayed with her, enriching the Arab literary scene since her first works as a teenager in Beirut. The issue opens with poems by the late Lebanese poet Bassam Hajjar, now read widely by young Arab poets who find him pioneering and inspirational. A second poet is Iraqi Adnan Mohsen with poems of the ordinary, the familiar and the