Banipal 57 – Syria in the Heart presents powerful new poetry and fiction by twelve Syrian authors – works that reach out to all with contemplation and compassion in the need to tell the story and the search to understand
in blues and rap poems
collection of beasts created by sound-play
Why has Elly such power over them all
— Publishers Weekly (USA)
Our Daily Bread Nathan Evans (Editor) Banipal 57 – Syria inOur Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, through Egypt, to the Far East, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the New World. Matvejevi shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions, drawing from the Bible, Talmud and Quran, but also at