Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Gavin Weston a move south to Newport

a move south to Newport inspires poems about the undulating river Usk and the post-industrial cityscape

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the warrior-wife of a princess

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Banipal 64 – A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh Gavin Weston a move south to NewportBanipal 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