Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Alex Barr “Lucas is a first rate

“Lucas is a first rate craftsman

and not long after the Berlin International Literature Festival

Hayet Raies A short story Azrael and the Author

we are going to learn Russian

of holy wells guarded by heifers

Banipal Magazine – Issue 32 Alex Barr “Lucas is a first rateBanipal 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,